The Safe Paradise of Lacral is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Electoral Council with an even hand, and remarkable for its lack of airports, anti-smoking policies, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate population of 5.97 billion Lacralians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Palonkak. The average income tax rate is 96.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Lacralian economy, worth 824 trillion Lacral Pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 138,121 Lacral Pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A suspicious number of male students have joined the Ladies' Wrestling League, school football matches are usually five-a-side, dog breeding has been banned in accordance with recent animal experimentation laws, and hypochondriacs demand treatment for genetic disorders they don't have. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lacral's national animal is the Falcon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Kindism.

Lacral is ranked 4,907^th in the world and 131^st in The Communist Bloc for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 15,243.14 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.