The Free Land of Lupical is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, vat-grown people, and labour-free parental leave. The compassionate, cynical population of 390 million Lupicalians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Welfare, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 66.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Lupicalian economy, worth 21.1 trillion paws a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Cheese Exports, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 54,113 paws, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Charity workers were first up against the wall when the time came, having skeletons in one's closet is no longer just a macabre idiom, trails to natural wonders are littered with trash from reality film crews, and heavily subsidised Lupicalian baskets litter the streets of Europe. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lupical's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Lupical is ranked 177,232^nd in the world and 555^th in Europe for Most Primitive, scoring -62.79 on the Scary Big Number Scale.