Laeland

The Kingdom of Laeland (Laeish: Koninkrijk Laeland) is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy located in the northwestern Auralia. It is bordered by the North Sea to the north and west. The capital is Den Haag and the largest city is Amsterdam.

Laeland (pronounced in English as [ˈle:lənd], in Laeish as [ˈle:əlɑnt]) was one of the first parliamentary democracies in Auralia and was a modern country from its foundation. The densely populated country has long been open to the world and is renouned for its traditional values and civil virtues such as its classic social tolerance. The country is more recently known for its rather modern, 'liberal' policies toward drugs, prostitution, and homosexuality.

The nation is a geographically low-lying country, with about 27% of its area and an estimated 60% of its population located below sea level. Significant areas have been gained through land reclamation and preserved through an elaborate system of polders and dikes. Much of Laeland is formed by the estuary of three important northern Auralian rivers. Most of the country is very flat, with the exception of foothills in the far south–east and several low-hill ranges in the central parts created by ice-age glaciers.

It also has one of the most free market capitalist economies in Auralia.

History
The area today known as Laeland was known until the middle ages as the low countries (de lage landen).