The United Socialist States of Lan Strines Islands is a colossal, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 5.092 billion Lan Strinians 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 enormous, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Seliciea. The average income tax rate is 90.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Lan Strinian economy, worth 622 trillion Bitcoins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 122,310 Bitcoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Broken suspension systems are giving auto repair shops plenty of business, children crying over dropped ice creams are offered high doses of experimental antidepressants, any body part that can be cut off a person is no longer considered to be their property, and the nationalised Arms Manufacturing Industry is not interested in making weapons. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lan Strines Islands's national animal is the bluefin tuna, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Lan Strines Islands is ranked 287,737^th in the world and 321^st in Conch Kingdom for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.46 kickbacks per hour.