The Queendom of Eng Lyra is a very large, safe nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 109 million Eng Lyrans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 51.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Eng Lyran economy, worth 3.20 trillion kibbles a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Woodchip Exports, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 29,375 kibbles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Picnickers are lucky if a few wasps are the only animals that trouble them, late night adverts for breast milk co-ops regularly win pornography industry awards, RPG fans reminisce fondly about when people thought they were evil and dangerous rather than geeky and socially inept, and Eng Lyran husbands are dead good at fathering kids. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Eng Lyra's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Eng Lyra is ranked 280,978^th in the world and 398^th in Astoria for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.65 kickbacks per hour.