The Imperial confederation of Lengelt-Abysselia is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Kerval von Ersatz-Greisuch with an iron fist, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, free-roaming dinosaurs, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 2.405 billion Lengelt-Abysselians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lengelt. The average income tax rate is 69.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Lengelt-Abysselian economy, worth 383 trillion abyss-searics a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 159,296 abyss-searics, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It's always rabbit season, the poor are often seen pale and dizzy after selling their blood to make ends meet, people regularly disappear off the streets and all evidence of them is destroyed, and political commentators say that Kerval von Ersatz-Greisuch's fruitcake plans are about to go pear-shaped. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lengelt-Abysselia's national animal is the abyss wyvern, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Abyssal church.

Lengelt-Abysselia is ranked 310,759^th in the world and 175^th in Mitteleuropa for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 40.53 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.