The Most Serene Republic of The Sinking Lure is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The Anticipation of Nayru with an even hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, ban on automobiles, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 6.307 billion Hylians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tslonia. The average income tax rate is 89.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Lurean economy, worth 543 trillion Rupees a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Basket Weaving. Average income is 86,235 Rupees, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens no longer take selfies with their dead relatives at funerals, panicking criminals no longer flush contraband down the toilet, fewer people are bathing as citizens must show ration stamps before they can turn on their faucets, and censors protect the public from lewd images of Bigtopians in duffel coats. Crime is totally unknown. The Sinking Lure's national animal is the Hylian Loach, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Hylia and Golden Goddesses.

The Sinking Lure is ranked 10,466^th in the world and 63^rd in Refugia for Most Cultured, scoring 116 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.