The Housekeeper of Von Lycaon is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its disturbing lack of elderly people, public floggings, and parental licensing program. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 3.715 billion Von Lycaonians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 21.7%.

The thriving Von Lycaonian economy, worth 259 trillion kronor a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Gambling, and Book Publishing. Average income is 69,872 kronor, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 271,245 per year while the poor average 12,321, a ratio of 22.0 to 1.

The nation's countrysides are littered with landmines due to ongoing family disputes, weird kids who eat bugs are breaking the law, patriots insist that size does matter, and travelers often bring empty plastic bottles on Air Von Lycaon flights to avoid the pay lavatories. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Von Lycaon's national animal is the giraffe, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Von Lycaon is ranked 232,386^th in the world and 1,629^th in Remembrance for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -5.83 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.