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“I don't know about a lake, but it's bleeding damp!”

The Naval Expedition of Lake Paho is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.191 billion are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whoever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Education, although Social Equality and the Environment are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of 22A Runcorn Avenue. The average income tax rate is 100%. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising fourteen-year-old boys selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

Euthanasia is legal, the government tries to improve relations with hostile countries by sending gift baskets, the nation is ravaged by daily union strikes, and the mob and the police have recently had numerous clashes in the back alleys of Lake Paho's cities due to the government's steadfast anti-casino stance. Crime is totally unknown. Lake Paho's national animal is the flea, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the spam.

Lake Paho is ranked 19th in the region and 1,234th in the world for Best Weather.