The Federation of Syvajarvi Lake is a massive, genial nation, notable for its parental licensing program, public floggings, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 1.161 billion Syvajarvi Lakeans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 64.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Syvajarvi Lakean economy, worth 92.7 trillion gambles 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 a slick, highly efficient black market in Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, Cheese Exports, and Woodchip Exports. 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 79,831 gambles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Candlelit dinners are less romantic with a flickering LED, voting is voluntary, the wearing and manufacture of fur apparel is banned, and families consisting of more than three people are forced to split up. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Syvajarvi Lake's national animal is the gamble, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Syvajarvi Lake is ranked 71,287^th in the world and 24^th in Lakes in Finland for Largest Governments, scoring 19.29 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.