The Allied Provinces of Laeral is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by President Liu Mei-han with a fair hand, and notable for its keen interest in outer space, daily referendums, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 6.744 billion Laeralites 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, outspoken government prioritizes Education, with Environment, Administration, and Industry also on the agenda, while Spirituality isn't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Laeralsford. The average income tax rate is 96.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Laeralian economy, worth a remarkable 1,238 trillion marks a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 183,600 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

President Liu Mei-han is too busy listening to praise to get any work done, interest rates mysteriously drop whenever the CBL Governor goes house hunting, the seventh son of a seventh son is fated to be a millionaire, and dog owners proudly declare that their pups can predict when the mailman will arrive. Crime is totally unknown. Laeral's national animal is the swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Laeral is ranked 4,525^th in the world and 14^th in International Democratic Union for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 543.12 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.