The Scientific Hooliganism of Sierra Lyricalia is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by everyone and no one with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, unlimited-speed roads, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 28.297 billion Lyricals 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 large, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Makhnovia. The average income tax rate is 90.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Lyrical economy, worth a remarkable 4,601 trillion ₦anotech dollars a year, is highly specialized and dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 162,620 ₦anotech dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Children's daycare starts at the crack of dawn, politicians always seem to take two steps forward then three steps back, prankster scientists legally change their names to silly pseudonyms before major discoveries, and the fattest folk in Sierra Lyricalia look to be the happiest ones. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Sierra Lyricalia's national animal is the blue pig, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is that every man and woman is a pope.

Sierra Lyricalia is ranked 8,171^st in the world and 10^th in Anarchy for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 450.17 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.