The Protectorate of Laepa is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its daily referendums, frequent executions, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 546 million Laepans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Harko. The average income tax rate is 60.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Laepan economy, worth 35.1 trillion apellios a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Automobile Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 64,306 apellios, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

High food prices have reduced the national diet to staple foods and water, one can wake up in Laepa and have breakfast in Bigtopia, Laepa Barrier Island residents anxiously await their 'Bridge to Somewhere', and citizens receive notices of disenfranchisement along with their parking tickets. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Laepa's national animal is the rosy - maple moth, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Laepa is ranked 225,935^th in the world and 56^th in Hive for Largest Populations, with 546 million capita.