The Lily Livery of Fjolmidlum is a titanic, socially progressive nation, renowned for its daily referendums, irreverence towards religion, and complete absence of social welfare. The democratic, cheerful population of 11.373 billion Fjols are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The relatively small, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kallisti. The average income tax rate is 22.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Fjolish economy, worth a remarkable 1,711 trillion Kroner a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Retail, Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Soda Sales. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 150,483 Kroner, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Middle management darts to the playground after board meetings, public spending advocates dread when the government says they're here to help, the government is full of big cheese, and no one questions why the chicken crossed the road anymore. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Fjolmidlum's national animal is the Predator Drone, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Erisianism.

Fjolmidlum is ranked 85,088^th in the world and 2^nd in The International Union of Boygirls for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 112.6 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.