The United Socialist States of Lesser Australis is a large, safe nation, notable for its zero percent divorce rate, state-planned economy, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 78 million Lesser Australisians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 77.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Lesser Australisian economy, worth 1.86 trillion Dollars 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 mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 23,817 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

No one engages in 'locker room talk' any more, blind dates reemerge as a necessary evil in the quest for love, political hopefuls must announce their intentions decades in advance to accommodate extensive background checks, and youth rights demonstrations often end in vicious snowball fights. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lesser Australis's national animal is the Platypus, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Lesser Australis is ranked 27,829^th in the world and 637^th in The Communist Bloc for Safest, scoring 109.92 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.