The Federation of Lycand is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Wolfgang Kipling with an iron fist, and notable for its deadly medical pandemics, vat-grown people, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 5.535 billion Lycandians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Moon. The average income tax rate is 83.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Lycandian economy, worth 895 trillion claws a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Retail. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 161,750 claws, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Alcoholics are lauded as national benefactors within the halls of the Ministry of Finance, the government subsidizes everything from particle physics to fabric softeners, dandruff and athlete's foot are seen as signs of physical beauty, and enemy agents are generally eliminated with extreme prejudice. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lycand's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Lycand is ranked 124,834^th in the world and 1^st in Sigma Wolf for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 1,635.96 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.