The Most Ancient and Noble House of Lancaster of Wessex is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by The Duke Lancaster with a fair hand, and remarkable for its strictly enforced bedtime, anti-smoking policies, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 36.305 billion Lancastrians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, outspoken government prioritizes Education, although Environment, Industry, and Social Policy are also considered important, while Spirituality and International Aid are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Ancestral Estate Capital Region. The average income tax rate is 78.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Lancaster of Wessexian economy, worth an astonishing 12,470 trillion Royal Crown Sterlings a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 343,493 Royal Crown Sterlings, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Babies are increasingly seen as a luxury, defense lawyers suggestively note to juries how flagrantly happy victims were, The Duke Lancaster's office has a newly installed Max-Man arcade game programmed by a 5th-grader, and Lancaster of Wessex recently hosted the least successful trade negotiations since The Phantom Menace. Crime is totally unknown. Lancaster of Wessex's national animal is the peregrine falcon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is ceremonially Wessex Anglicanism.

Lancaster of Wessex is ranked 7,514^th in the world and 1^st in House of Lancaster of Wessex for Most Influential, scoring 7,321 on the Soft Power Disbursement Rating.