The United Kingdom of Greater Lexington is a large, safe nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 73 million Greater Lexingtonians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 13.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Greater Lexingtonian economy, worth 5.99 trillion Euros a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Automobile Manufacturing, and Retail. Average income is 82,012 Euros, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Laser-wielding robots are taking aim at human hearts, voting is voluntary, escaped birthday balloons are torpedoed out of the sky, and roads are often attended by round-the-clock construction crews. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Greater Lexington's national animal is the Koala, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Greater Lexington is ranked 80,097^th in the world and 3^rd in Alliance of Democratic Nations for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 50.99 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.