The Pondering of Leonardo Da Vinci is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci with an iron fist, and notable for its avant-garde cinema, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 37.534 billion Leonardo Da Vincians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of LeonardoCity. The average income tax rate is 61.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Leonardo Da Vincian economy, worth a remarkable 7,298 trillion guldens 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, 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 an impressive 194,457 guldens, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Literally voiceless people are unable to protest when food and water are denied to them, Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci can often be found attempting to coax random citizens' cats down from trees, candlelit dinners are less romantic with a flickering LED, and a citizen who thinks a slave is a deadbeat is entitled to make the descriptor literally true. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Leonardo Da Vinci's national animal is the leeuw, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Atheism.

Leonardo Da Vinci is ranked 1,988^th in the world and 16^th in Nederland for Largest Populations, with 37.5 billion capita.