The Democratic Republic of Libate is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Prime Minister Kurt Schmidt with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, compulsory military service, and national health service. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 28.684 billion Libateans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Olland. The average income tax rate is 92.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Libatean economy, worth a remarkable 3,647 trillion Silver Dollars a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 127,149 Silver Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Churches across the land are hurriedly installing auto-tune for their choirs, the election for Prime Minister Kurt Schmidt's office's janitor is heating up, a surprising number of police officers have been arrested for Dolphin sacrifices, and would-be emigrants are told "abandon all hope all ye who would exit here". Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Libate's national animal is the Dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Libate is ranked 268,431^st in the world and 273^rd in The Union of Democratic States for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 10,044.85 Standard Monetary Units.