The Allied Provinces of Laeral is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by President Liu Mei-han with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 8.745 billion Laeralites hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, liberal, outspoken government prioritizes Education, with Environment, Healthcare, and Administration also on the agenda, while Spirituality is ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Laeralsford. The average income tax rate is 96.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Laeralian economy, worth a remarkable 1,589 trillion marks a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 181,801 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People are more interested in gossip about the private lives of politicians than their policies, evenings at university debating societies often end with everyone acknowledging both sides may well be right, children gain their first sex education from reading the dictionary, and couples kissing on the street are detained for 'unlawful exchange of genetic material'. Crime is totally unknown. Laeral's national animal is the swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Laeral is ranked 189,650^th in the world and 98^th in International Democratic Union for Most Authoritarian, with 257.08 milliStalins.