The People's Republic of Liwayway is a huge, socially progressive nation, notable for its state-planned economy, digital currency, and irreverence towards religion. The democratic population of 520 million Liwaywayans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kalayaan City. The average income tax rate is 80.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Liwaywayian economy, worth 62.2 trillion Diras a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 119,630 Diras, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Children often kick Liwaywayan Cobras for amusement, vital intelligence-gathering activities are put on hold as agents return home for seduction training and advanced poker instruction, children dream of becoming physicians and physicists, and it is illegal for police officers to carry out searches due to strict privacy laws. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Liwayway's national animal is the Liwaywayan Cobra, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Liwayway is ranked 11,810^th in the world and 527^th in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 374.25 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.