The Commonwealth of Langburn is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Regent Marion Bost with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, complete lack of prisons, and vat-grown people. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 2.197 billion Langburnians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The tiny, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Onita. The average income tax rate is 23.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Langburnian economy, worth 377 trillion crowns a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Gambling, and Soda Sales. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 171,889 crowns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Government expenses are beyond compare, bands of paramedics walk the streets looking for suspicious medical activity, saying "don't do anything that Regent Marion Bost wouldn't do" doesn't exclude a great deal, and every school is receiving a brand new eraser. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Langburn's national animal is the fox, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Langburn is ranked 292,895^th in the world and 5,282^nd in The East Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 4.81 law-abiding acts per hour.