The Federacy of Laniakea and Primaliya is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the Federal Directorate with a fair hand, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 2.055 billion Lannies 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, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sedikoe Federal City. The average income tax rate is 91.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Laniākean economy, worth 252 trillion Solars 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 122,854 Solars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Many whiskies taste suspiciously like automobile radiators, counselors have to sign pledges supporting gay rights before they can speak to any patients, school plays were recently banned due to concerns of child endangerment, and excited shovel-bearing geeks wander the countryside. Crime is totally unknown. Laniakea and Primaliya's national animal is the crow, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Laniākean folk religion.

Laniakea and Primaliya is ranked 7,466^th in the world and 196^th in the South Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 134 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.