The Democratic States of Leppikania is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Nick with a fair hand, and notable for its complete lack of prisons, daily referendums, and smutty television. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 13.014 billion Leppiks 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 government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Epissiac. The average income tax rate is 95.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Leppikanian economy, worth a remarkable 2,079 trillion Stars a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 159,777 Stars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Eau de Trashcan has become a wildly popular perfume, escaped birthday balloons are torpedoed out of the sky, war memorials have been modified to include hammocks for napping, and Nick steals from the rich and gives to the needy. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Leppikania's national animal is the cuttlefish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Pastafarianism.

Leppikania is ranked 19,849^th in the world and 2^nd in West Atlantic Organization for Highest Poor Incomes, with 92,386.77 Standard Monetary Units.