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 closed borders, fear of technology, and anti-smoking policies. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 28.249 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 enormous, 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 receive no funds. 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 16,551 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 585,927 pfft DEAREST LEADER OWNS ALLS, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,066,705 per year while the poor average 120,165, a ratio of 17.2 to 1.

Dangerous criminals are often 'accidentally' sent on one-way trips to Maxtopia, strange lights seen in the sky are officially regarded as weather balloons or hoaxes and nothing else, not showing enough enthusiasm for mutual assured destruction is a court-martial offence, and the nanny industry has had a boom after maternity leave was recently banned. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. 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 154,750^th in the world and 85^th in Psychotic Dictatorships for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring -60.83 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.