The Allied Provinces of Laeral is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by President Nicholas Brennan with a fair hand, and notable for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 6.01 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 1,103 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 183,536 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Cosmopolitan citizens ask what their countries can do for them, President Nicholas Brennan is too busy listening to praise to get any work done, interest rates mysteriously drop whenever the CBL Governor goes house hunting, and the seventh son of a seventh son is fated to be a millionaire. Crime is totally unknown. Laeral's national animal is the swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Laeral is ranked 155,695^th in the world and 99^th in International Democratic Union for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -16.04 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.