The Sultanate of Lanorth is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Sultan Mehmed with an iron fist, and remarkable for its enslaved workforce, sprawling nuclear power plants, and avowedly heterosexual populace. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 3.675 billion Lanorthans are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Law & Order, Education, and Industry also on the agenda, while Environment and Spirituality receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Constantinople. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 83.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Lanorthan economy, worth a remarkable 1,177 trillion Gold Akçes a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Retail. Average income is an amazing 320,502 Gold Akçes, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,807,891 per year while the poor average 27,957, a ratio of 64.7 to 1.

Economists claim no news is good news, drill sergeants yell in the ears of bespectacled nerds in cybermilitary "reboot camps", the state has declared war on the environment and environmentalists by association, and young children are learning advanced physics to scientifically disprove the existence of Santa Claus. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lanorth's national animal is the Grey Wolf, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Sunni Islam.

Lanorth is ranked 23,685^th in the world and 803^rd in the West Pacific for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 5,186.78 on the Hickory Productivity Index.