The Scandinavian Realm of Lagene is a huge, efficient nation, notable for its complete lack of prisons, daily referendums, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, devout population of 579 million Lageneans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Risastort. The average income tax rate is 65.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Lagenean economy, worth 44.2 trillion Eunes a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 76,380 Eunes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The best doughnut stores have been taken over by foreign police officers, men of steel get no respect, lobbyists are trying to convince government to recategorize most natural disasters as "non-critical naturogenic inconveniences", and business owners return from long vacations to find their factories have been turned into homeless shelters. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lagene's national animal is the Banana Slug, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Lagene is ranked 88,837^th in the world and 320^th in Europe for Most Armed, with 0.53 weapons per person.