The Holy Society of Buddies of Ligmabaels is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Bingham Pastorio with an iron fist, and notable for its public floggings, aversion to nipples, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.112 billion Ligmabaelis are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Duinyurmam. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 46.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Ligmabaeli economy, worth a remarkable 1,194 trillion ligmas a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, Arms Manufacturing, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 290,456 ligmas, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 883,251 per year while the poor average 74,179, a ratio of 11.9 to 1.

Warfare increasingly resembles a video game, card players are calling the government's bluff on anti-gambling legislation, the little guy plays a big role in Ligmabaeli politics, and students who refuse to pray are expelled from school. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ligmabaels's national animal is the slugma, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Intercourse.

Ligmabaels is ranked 148,972^nd in the world and 3,511^th in the Rejected Realms for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 455.55 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.