The Communities of Love And Hatred is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Web of Assemblies with a fair hand, and remarkable for its digital currency, ubiquitous missile silos, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.433 billion Lovtredians 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 large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Origin. The average income tax rate is 92.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Lovtredian economy, worth 491 trillion Loves 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 dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 143,102 Loves, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Remote-control hang-gliding scarecrows patrol the skies to keep songbirds from leaving the nation's borders, Love And Hatred has one of the largest offshore wind farms in the world, military units are often seen arguing over which one is truly favored by the gods, and many friends and relatives of Web of Assemblies have been given ambassador jobs in tropical island nations. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Love And Hatred's national animal is the Melanocor, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Love And Hatred is ranked 23,677^th in the world and 920^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 87 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.