The Magical Eclarian Paradise of Purple Lightning is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by High Commander Louisa Nickolaus Tilo with an iron fist, and renowned for its zero percent divorce rate, frequent executions, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 1.105 billion Purple Lights are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Piñeapolis. The average income tax rate is 80.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Lit economy, worth 7.65 trillion credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, highly specialized black market in Uranium Mining and Arms Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 6,925 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Carbon-footprint restrictions are making businesses walk, the strong are acquitted and the weak are trampled in trial by a Bright Pegasus, the number of children one can have is restricted by law, and praying before a battle is a court-martial offence. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Purple Lightning's national animal is the Bright Pegasus, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Purple Lightning is ranked 168,594^th in the world and 1^st in Conjuration for Most Pacifist, with 37.53 Cheeks Turned Per Day.