The Republic of A La Siege is a massive, cultured nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, zero percent divorce rate, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-working population of 1.925 billion La Siegeans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 35.9%.

The La Siegean economy, worth 63.8 trillion florins a year, is quite specialized and led by the Cheese Exports industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 33,119 florins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.1 times as much as the poorest.

The death penalty has been reintroduced, hundreds of thousands of convicts work as slaves in A La Siege's many privately-owned prisons, the La Siegean cut of Apocalypse Now sets the helicopter scene to eerie silence, and many politicians are serving jail time for minor drug offenses. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. A La Siege's national animal is the horse, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

A La Siege is ranked 234,238^th in the world and 253^rd in Kelios for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring -2 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.