The Commonwealth of New Lakemba is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by The Committee with a fair hand, and notable for its complete lack of prisons, vat-grown people, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 19.722 billion New Lakembans 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 large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Canberra. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient New Lakemban economy, worth a remarkable 6,735 trillion New Lakembian Standard Kebabs a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 341,526 New Lakembian Standard Kebabs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It turns out you can teach cats new tricks, confessions don't count if suffixed with "izzle", the national guard is mobilized whenever a mother gets separated from her child at the mall, and war vets look after war animals. Crime is totally unknown. New Lakemba's national animal is the Animal Kingdom, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Lakemba is ranked 22,646^th in the world and 654^th in The North Pacific for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 6,680.32 on the Gilded Widget Scale.