The People's Republic of Lasso Row is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Cowboy Pete with an iron fist, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, free-roaming dinosaurs, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 17.77 billion Cowboys are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Texas. The average income tax rate is 80.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Lasso Rowian economy, worth a remarkable 3,105 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Uranium Mining, and Basket Weaving. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 174,743 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Burglary is widely regarded as the national sport, tumbleweeds are seen blowing through the nation's airspace, creating cardboard imitations of missiles is a new top-secret military project, and theft is considered to be okay if the crime happened a long time ago. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lasso Row's national animal is the Cow, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Lasso Worship.

Lasso Row is ranked 162,719^th in the world and 7,179^th in Osiris for Lowest Crime Rates, with 59.91 law-abiding acts per hour.