The Parliamentary Autocracy of Lucien Mounier is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by The Duke of Richelieu with an iron fist, and renowned for its compulsory military service, absence of drug laws, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.596 billion Lucien Mounierians enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The minute, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Industry, although Defense, Administration, and Healthcare are also considered important, while Spirituality and International Aid aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Eighteenth Brumaire. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.8%.

The thriving Lucien Mounierian economy, worth 99.8 trillion pebbles a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 62,512 pebbles, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 396,877 per year while the poor average 4,081, a ratio of 97.2 to 1.

Ships no longer sail as no one wants to encounter Lucien Mounierian pirates, the government is lending a hand to private industry, open-casket funerals are avoided at all cost, and the nation's weary schoolchildren excel at sport but must count scores on their fingers. Crime is pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Lucien Mounier's national animal is the smallish green creature, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is The Cult of Reason.

Lucien Mounier is ranked 15,418^th in the world and 707^th in Balder for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 5,352.55 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.