The Grand Duchy of Lagentium is a huge, orderly nation, remarkable for its public floggings, compulsory military service, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 434 million Lagentians 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 relatively small, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 10.0%.

The strong Lagentian economy, worth 27.2 trillion Quinariuses a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 62,661 Quinariuses, with the richest citizens earning 6.6 times as much as the poorest.

Police officers often conceal their identities to safeguard against public complaints, twins move across the country to avoid being accused of the other's crimes, the country is governed by a clique of political insiders known colloquially as The Establishment, and food voucher forgeries are causing headaches for the police. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lagentium's national animal is the Horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Lagentium is ranked 231,964^th in the world and 2,546^th in The East Pacific for Largest Populations, with 434 million capita.