The Dispossessed of La Peste is a gargantuan, safe nation, notable for its state-planned economy, complete lack of prisons, and absence of drug laws. The democratic population of 26.165 billion La Pesteans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lead City. The average income tax rate is 78.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant La Pestean economy, worth 276 trillion Gave ups 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 Uranium Mining industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Gambling, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 10,565 Gave ups, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

All mothers are allowed six months fully-paid maternity leave, same-sex marriages are increasingly common, religious organizations are being forced to leave the country or pay income taxes like everybody else, and La Peste recently decided against having a capital city. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. La Peste's national animal is the I Never, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

La Peste is ranked 149,970^th in the world and 1^st in Neuordnung for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 579.84 on the Gilded Widget Scale.