The Free People of Neonlake is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Argle the Usurper with an even hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, ubiquitous missile silos, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 6.286 billion Neonites are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of NeonCloud. The average income tax rate is 83.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Neon economy, worth 306 trillion Floppy Disks a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Arms Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is 48,798 Floppy Disks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

An aboriginal talking stick is used for leaders' debates at election time, there's no cure or sympathy for the common cold, there is an abondance of ackawi and zartschmelzend in every Neon grocery store, and the government is constantly producing new maps to accommodate the continual renaming of cities. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Neonlake's national animal is the glow-crab, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is the 5 Spheres.

Neonlake is ranked 196,421^st in the world and 7,554^th in The North Pacific for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry, scoring 235.34 on the Tasmanian Pulp Environmental Export Index.