The Sovereign Multistate of Lugarvatn is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Emperor Mia I with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, daily referendums, and smutty television. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 1.347 billion Lugarvats hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Madeline - District Of. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 26.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Lugarvat economy, worth 183 trillion Lugarvat Rubies a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Soda Sales, Book Publishing, and Gambling. Average income is an impressive 136,085 Lugarvat Rubies, with the richest citizens earning 5.7 times as much as the poorest.

People are bored of easy crossword puzzles, every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead, elected officials often serve for decades in a single term, and employers are never quite sure if graduates' qualifications have any merit or meaning. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Lugarvatn's national animal is the Cheetah, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Orthodoxy.

Lugarvatn is ranked 211,353^rd in the world and 4,156^th in The North Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -89.83 on the Scary Big Number Scale.