The Federal Republic of Lippeland is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Bernhard zur Lippe with an iron fist, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, aversion to nipples, and smutty television. The compassionate, cynical population of 6.316 billion Lippelandians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Buchenfurt. The average income tax rate is 90.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient lippelandish economy, worth a remarkable 1,174 trillion Lippmarks a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 185,983 Lippmarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's taxpayers pay for foreign governments' extravagances, coffee-addicted citizens look forward to baristas getting their name wrong at local coffee shops, the police have reaffirmed their tough stance on drugs, and the nation's counterintelligence budget is all up in the air. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lippeland's national animal is the Horse, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Lippeland is ranked 10,164^th in the world and 6^th in Lands End for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 9,612.21 on the Gilded Widget Scale.