The Islamic Socialist Republic of Laasmistan is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Hadya Amrani with an even hand, and notable for its punitive income tax rates, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 2.095 billion Laasmistanis are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Welfare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Qardasra. The average income tax rate is 68.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Laasmistanian economy, worth 33.3 trillion Dinars 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 mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 15,898 Dinars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers, Islam has been named as Laasmistan's national religion, student athletes gaze forlornly at abandoned Lionball fields, and the WhoTube comments section has gone strangely quiet. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Laasmistan's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Islam.

Laasmistan is ranked 189,360^th in the world and 8^th in Dar al Islam for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry, scoring 217.09 on the Tasmanian Pulp Environmental Export Index.