The Confederacy of Lyvenburg is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its closed borders, triple-decker prams, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 207 million Lihvians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 20.0%.

The all-consuming Lyvenburgian economy, worth 18.0 trillion Vickets a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Furniture Restoration, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 86,927 Vickets, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 392,605 per year while the poor average 11,839, a ratio of 33.2 to 1.

Minefields are being deployed along the border to discourage potential emigrants from trying to leave, jumping in puddles after rainstorms has become an indoor activity, foreigners often find themselves on the wrong end of a Lyvenburgian RPG, and neighbourhood gossips whip up controversy about those receiving adult merchandise. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force. Lyvenburg's national animal is the Mountain Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Lyvenburg is ranked 76,021^st in the world and 90^th in Karma for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 2,398.4 on the Gilded Widget Scale.