The United Arab Republics of Lysheim is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Amal Ayad with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, pith helmet sales, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 11.462 billion Lyshians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Elyaamud. The average income tax rate is 69.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Lysheimian economy, worth a remarkable 2,735 trillion Riyaadhs a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 238,624 Riyaadhs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Libraries are now installed with jacuzzis and mini-bars, unpopular cops are fired at a moment's notice by the citizens they police, bemused citizens are encouraged to sing foreign-language hymns of religions they have never heard of, and welfare recipients are milking the government for all they've got. Crime is totally unknown. Lysheim's national animal is the Golden Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Lysheim is ranked 46,411^th in the world and 66^th in Gay for Most Valuable International Artwork, with zero Bank.