The Confederacy of Louisistan is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Lord Chancellor Wilbur Cross with an even hand, and notable for its conspicuous electricity pylons, compulsory military service, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 19.337 billion Louisistanians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Meersburg. The average income tax rate is 99.4%.

The enormous but inefficient Louisistanian economy, worth a remarkable 2,355 trillion Louisistanian Grand Quarter Pounds 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 Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 121,826 Louisistanian Grand Quarter Pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Urban parents tell their children that the family car went to a farm upstate, pareidolic SETI scientists swear there's a message from aliens hidden within pi, new Louisistanian taxis are fitted with server racks, and pulling weeds is seen as a threat to national security. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Louisistan's national animal is the Kiwi, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Louisistan is ranked 271,587^th in the world and 1,332^nd in 10000 Islands for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -15.23 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.