The Great Dismal Delve of Laeding is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Great Khan with an iron fist, and notable for its pith helmet sales, avowedly heterosexual populace, and vat-grown people. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 13.786 billion Laedi are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The tiny, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Industry, and Administration also on the agenda, while Environment and Welfare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Sevenfold Mazework. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Laedish economy, worth a remarkable 4,887 trillion daos 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 large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. 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 amazing 354,500 daos, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

The black market offers sweet deals, the past is set in stone, overhead luggage compartments on planes sometimes conceal diminutive intelligence officers, and jaywalking will put an end to a family tree. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force. Laeding's national animal is the lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is divine nationalism.

Laeding is ranked 209,619^th in the world and 7^th in Esamir for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -2.01 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.