The Emirate of Lugubriana is a large, orderly nation, remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, digital currency, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 69 million Lugubrianans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The enormous, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 68.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Lugubrianan economy, worth 2.95 trillion guilders a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 42,735 guilders, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Requests to "pass the salt" are supported by tank divisions, the Treasury has been accused of flushing money down the toilet, nerdy teenagers have to prove that they're made of the same stuff as their grandparents, and oddly simian-looking religious thugs beat up anyone who suggests humans are related to monkeys. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lugubriana's national animal is the panther.

Lugubriana is ranked 96,623^rd in the world and 177^th in Nordic Lands for Most Patriotic, with 15.43 flags saluted per person per day.