The People's Republic of Lylis is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its punitive income tax rates, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 512 million Lylisians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Spirituality, and Education. The average income tax rate is 72.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Lylisian economy, worth 15.7 trillion Socias a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Pizza Delivery, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 30,743 Socias, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Abortion is only legal in unusual circumstances, children have lost interest in toy guns in favor of toy meth lab kits, it is rumoured that Leader uses a magic 8-ball to make policy decisions, and residents of houses built on a foundation of wishful thinking are prone to an odd sinking feeling. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lylis's national animal is the Bunny, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Lylis is ranked 191,256^th in the world and 528^th in The Communist Bloc for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -1.41 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.