The Letterman Commie Paradise of Menta Lee-IL is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by DEAREST LEADER Menta Lee-IL with an iron fist, and renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, compulsory military service, and ban on automobiles. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 30.039 billion DEAREST LEADER'S eternal slaves are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is effectively ruled by the Department of Defense, although Law & Order, Administration, and Industry are also considered important, while Environment and Welfare aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of DEAREST LEADER ETERNAL UNIVERSAL CAPITAL. The income tax rate is 100%.

The strong Menta Lee-ILian economy, worth an astonishing 18,769 trillion pfft DEAREST LEADER OWNS ALLS 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. 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 a breathtaking 624,842 pfft DEAREST LEADER OWNS ALLS, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 4,011,707 per year while the poor average 39,583, a ratio of 101 to 1.

Napalm is the tool of choice for disabling eco-unfriendly forestry operations, most academic research has ground to a halt, phone taps are frequently carried out by the police, and it's entirely possible foreign diplomats misheard when Menta Lee-IL offered the words "peace be upon you". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force. Menta Lee-IL's national animal is the wow ALL ANIMALS LOVE DEAREST LEADER, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is ALL OBJECTS ADORE DEAREST LEADER.

Menta Lee-IL is ranked 208,847^th in the world and 162^nd in Psychotic Dictatorships for Least Corrupt Governments, with 0.29 Percentage Of Bribes Refused.