The Commonwealth of Lower Lsana Jes is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by High Emperor Silas with an iron fist, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 1.789 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 Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lsana. The average income tax rate is 26.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Lower Lsana Jesian economy, worth 242 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, broadly 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 135,363 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Power to the people comes from the barrel of a gun, fur coats have become the latest fashion trend, sheepish teenagers are making eye contact with their parents for the first time in a decade during state-enforced 'no-phones hour', and abortions are carried out secretly in shady backstreet clinics. 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 278,205^th in the world and 6,098^th in The North Pacific for Nicest Citizens, with 0.41 average smiles per day.