The People's Republic of Liwayway is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, daily referendums, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed population of 391 million Liwaywayans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kalayaan City. The average income tax rate is 80.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Liwaywayian economy, worth 43.6 trillion Diras a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 111,615 Diras, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Government ministers sport new billboards that read 'Will Trade Votes for Private Members' Bill Support', government-sanctioned speed mating is rife with Party-sanctioned abuse of power, hypochondriacs demand treatment for genetic disorders they don't have, and Liwaywayian police have to pay out of their own pockets for bulletproof vests. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Liwayway's national animal is the Liwaywayan Cobra, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Liwayway is ranked 32,935^th in the world and 1,196^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 79 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.