The Allied Provinces of Laeral is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by President Liu Mei-han with a fair hand, and notable for its otherworldly petting zoo, free-roaming dinosaurs, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 6.755 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, although Environment, Administration, and Industry are also considered important, while Spirituality is ignored. 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 1,240 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 183,664 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Interest rates mysteriously drop whenever the CBL Governor goes house hunting, the seventh son of a seventh son is fated to be a millionaire, dog owners proudly declare that their pups can predict when the mailman will arrive, and constipated disaster survivors are rapidly learning that MRE is short for "Meal Requiring Enemas". Crime is totally unknown. Laeral's national animal is the swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Laeral is ranked 121,929^th in the world and 97^th in International Democratic Union for Most Pro-Market, scoring 28.44 on the Rand Index.