The United Socialist States of Lake Lovecraft is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its state-planned economy, ubiquitous missile silos, and public floggings. The compassionate, democratic population of 935 million Lake Lovecraftians 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 Education, Environment, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cthulhu. The average income tax rate is 87.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Lake Lovecraftian economy, worth 79.2 trillion pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Furniture Restoration, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 84,732 pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Ghost regiments exist only on paper, customs officers pretend not to hear shouts of "HELP LET ME OUT!" emerging from diplomatic bags, invasive drug testing is now performed at elementary school sports days, and space shuttles regularly launch rubbish into space. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lake Lovecraft's national animal is the Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Lake Lovecraft is ranked 12,480^th in the world and 8^th in Socialists for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 10,078.19 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.