The Federation of Kurkijarvi-Tuuliainenn Lake is a massive, genial nation, notable for its avant-garde cinema, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 1.195 billion Kurkijarvi-Tuuliainenn Lakeans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 42.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Kurkijarvi-Tuuliainenn Lakean economy, worth 69.7 trillion gambles 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 black market in Information Technology, Tourism, Basket Weaving, 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 58,324 gambles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens cannot change their light bulbs without approval from an international committee, shoppers have literally had their hands full since plastic bags were banned, policemen regularly conduct midnight raids on closed donut shops to 'collect evidence', and Kurkijarvi-Tuuliainenn Lake City's back alleys are rife with sausage eating. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kurkijarvi-Tuuliainenn Lake's national animal is the gamble, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Kurkijarvi-Tuuliainenn Lake is ranked 305,845^th in the world and 242^nd in Lakes in Finland for Most Cultured, scoring 57 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.