The Unknown Location of Laffin Mcgaffin is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by McGaffin with an even hand, and notable for its state-planned economy, daily referendums, and compulsory vegetarianism. The compassionate, hard-working, devout population of 10.317 billion Laffin Mcgaffinians 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Triangle City. The average income tax rate is 35.3%.

The very strong Laffin Mcgaffinian economy, worth 672 trillion Dublooms 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, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Pizza Delivery, Cheese Exports, and Uranium Mining. 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 65,207 Dublooms, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.8 times as much as the poorest.

Laffin Mcgaffinian novella fans become unusually flustered when thinking about McGaffin, all major public areas are watched by police surveillance cameras, criminals lock themselves in their mums' basements to avoid prison, and the fattest folk in Laffin Mcgaffin look to be the happiest ones. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Laffin Mcgaffin's national animal is the Aquatic giraffe, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Laffin Mcgaffin is ranked 117,836^th in the world and 3^rd in Zebra Ice Station for Most Corrupt Governments, with 7.96 kickbacks per hour.