The Constitutional Monarchy of Lempathielf is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-working, democratic population of 421 million Lempathielfians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 10.7%.

The Lempathielfian economy, worth 25.0 trillion rupees a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 59,392 rupees, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.

Lempathielfian novella fans become unusually flustered when thinking about Leader, anyone with a tin cup can stop by the welfare office to have it filled with coins, older citizens lament over the loss of law and order, and Leader is strangely popular with male politicians' wives. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Lempathielf's national animal is the elephant, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Lempathielf is ranked 144,314^th in the world and 175^th in The Black Hawks for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 543.39 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.