The Commonwealth of New Lakemba is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by The Committee with a fair hand, and notable for its keen interest in outer space, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 24.788 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 enormous, 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 Lakemba. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient New Lakemban economy, worth a remarkable 9,576 trillion New Lakemban 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 386,335 New Lakemban Standard Kebabs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government puts forth the claim that harming young girls is wrong, kindhearted New Lakembans generously pay taxes for citizens of other countries, residents of newly dried out bays live in fear of leaky dikes, and RPG fans reminisce fondly about when people thought they were evil and dangerous rather than geeky and socially inept. 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 306,964^th in the world and 4,644^th in The North Pacific for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector, scoring -27.17 on the Charon Conveyancy Index.