The Commonwealth of Lower Lsana Jes is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by High Emperor Silas with an iron fist, and renowned for its smutty television, soft-spoken computers, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 1.812 billion Lower Lsana Jesians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lsana. The average income tax rate is 28.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Lower Lsana Jesian economy, worth 247 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 136,332 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Undergrads find their professors' mushroom experiments less psychedelic than expected, women who walk into the ladies' changing room are accused of being Peeping Toms, government theft from poor artists to give to rich allies has been dubbed the "reverse Robin Hood" policy, and community organizers have given up going door to door because nobody is home. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lower Lsana Jes's national animal is the dove, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Silans.

Lower Lsana Jes is ranked 10,241^st in the world and 448^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 119 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.