The Pink Duck and Friend of TNP of Laforeia is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Rhyo Karuna with an even hand, and notable for its national health service, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cheerful population of 3.791 billion Laforeians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yggdrassil. The average income tax rate is 97.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Laforic economy, worth 619 trillion Yeifas a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 163,502 Yeifas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Obstetricians are not allowed to publish ultrasound pictures of fetuses in medical journals, everyone seems to be pushing the buttons of AIs, the government has spent days debating the merits of a petition calling for a ban on sporks, and several universities in Laforeia have assembled expensive research teams to explore and study new lands and old ruins (Laforeia has found 8 easter eggs). Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Laforeia's national animal is the Pangolin, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Friendshieism.

Laforeia is ranked 287,070^th in the world and 6,187^th in The North Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -17.06 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.