The Protectorate of Lyras is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Warmarshal Natasha Krell with an iron fist, and renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, free-roaming dinosaurs, and national health service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 45.192 billion Lyrans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is effectively ruled by the Department of Defense, with Environment and Social Policy not funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bredubar. The average income tax rate is 98.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Lyran economy, worth an astonishing 22,862 trillion Varessan crowns a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Average income is a breathtaking 505,892 Varessan crowns, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,469,359 per year while the poor average 137,869, a ratio of 10.7 to 1.

Colonels love the smell of trash in the morning, nothing is beneath the government after it has extracted all the oil, diplomatic missions are often mistaken as declarations of war, and the nationalistic national anthem inspires citizens to literally spit at foreigners. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Lyras's national animal is the Lyran Drop Bear, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Lyras is ranked 315,251^st in the world and 71^st in Greater Dienstad for Longest Average Lifespans, with 26.82 years.