The League of Lanonia is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed population of 974 million Lanonians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mariniya. The average income tax rate is 19.5%.

The thriving Lanonian economy, worth 96.9 trillion Lanoinan Coins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 99,514 Lanoinan Coins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.5 times as much as the poorest.

Pictures of government employees with expensive Pearbooks 'working' on exotic beaches dominate local tabloids, matryoshka dolls resembling nested Death Stars are commonly sold, a crusade against barbaric religious practices has begun, and schoolchildren must pass a six-month Ethics and Safety Committee Assessment before they are allowed to mix baking soda and vinegar. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lanonia's national animal is the Shark, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Lanonia is ranked 86,533^rd in the world and 7^th in Union of Conlang Nations for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,913.7 on the Gilded Widget Scale.