The Commonwealth of Lanorth is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Johannes van der Capellen with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, infamous sell-swords, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 11.908 billion Lanorthans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Law & Order, Education, and Industry are also considered important, while Spirituality receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Eemshaven. The average income tax rate is 91.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Lanorthan economy, worth a remarkable 3,799 trillion Kruijns a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 319,071 Kruijns, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Blue sky thinkers are reminded that the firmament is actually more of a grey-ish colour, the military has gone fission for more funding, turnstile jumpers grow up to be tax cheats, and viewers get headaches from trying to read the screen full of small print warnings that precede most TV shows. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lanorth's national animal is the Lion, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Christianity.

Lanorth is ranked 7,605^th in the world and 372^nd in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 464.94 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.