The Holy Red Kaleidoscope of Luddinlande is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Master Indigo of the High Chorus with a fair hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, national health service, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 8.884 billion Luddineans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Green Meadows. The average income tax rate is 98.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Luddinean economy, worth a remarkable 1,308 trillion red roses a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 147,330 red roses, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Witnesses have to run a gauntlet of mob enforcers to testify at trials, a commonwealth of equal nations recognises that Luddinlande is a bit more equal than the others, older citizens lament over the loss of law and order, and the contraband cigarette trade is lighting up across Luddinlande. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Luddinlande's national animal is the blue dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Luddinlande is ranked 1,185^th in the world and 28^th in the South Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 23,256.88 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.