The Matriarchy of Lahmere is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Empress Inge Aldfrith with an even hand, and renowned for its ban on automobiles, national health service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 27.51 billion Lahmereans 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 Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Anedale Harbour. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Lahmerean economy, worth a remarkable 5,778 trillion thalers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 210,064 thalers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Conspiracy theorists allege that the government is spying on them through their carbon monoxide detectors, aeroplanes have been converted into housing units after all air travel was outlawed, high-income earners pay a 100% tax rate, and guide dogs for the blind have been seen using government websites. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lahmere's national animal is the musk deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Lahmere is ranked 2,483^rd in the world and 5^th in Equilism for Most Cultured, scoring 236 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.