The Republic of Lampy lands is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its punitive income tax rates, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic population of 31.343 billion Lampy landsians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 73.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Lampy landsian economy, worth 444 trillion lamps a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, highly specialized black market in Automobile Manufacturing, Trout Farming, and Beef-Based Agriculture. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 14,193 lamps, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

All recreational drugs are legal. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lampy lands's national animal is the prairie chicken, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Lampy lands is ranked 150,637^th in the world and 1^st in A Door in the Cosmos for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 746.91 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.