The Empire of Luronie is a small, genial nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, frequent executions, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate, devout population of 32 million Luronieans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 14.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Luroniean economy, worth 1.31 trillion francs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 40,883 francs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The police force is rumoured to be made up of evil shadows with no souls, droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, film studios own the rights to actors' likenesses until the next millennium, and a suspicious number of male students have joined the Ladies' Wrestling League. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Luronie's national animal is the koala, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Luronie is ranked 43,816^th in the world and 1^st in Xileheynam for Most Beautiful Environments, with 720.72 pounds of wildlife per square mile.