The United Socialist States of Lentcia is a very large, safe nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 118 million Lentcians 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, Law & Order, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 63.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Lentcian economy, worth 3.86 trillion Lentces a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Cheese Exports, Retail, Woodchip Exports, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 32,696 Lentces, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Calvinball training often involves digging escape tunnels, grinding bureaucracy has the international wheels of justice turning slowly, daisy chain gangs plant flowers and pick up litter, and the importance of winning Olympic gold medals is indoctrinated from an early age. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lentcia's national animal is the Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Lentcia is ranked 167,677^th in the world and 820^th in The Communist Bloc for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 1,072.34 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.