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 remarkable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, flagrant waste-dumping, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 30.894 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, with Law & Order, Administration, and Industry also on the agenda, 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 19,789 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 640,561 pfft DEAREST LEADER OWNS ALLS, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 4,128,474 per year while the poor average 40,154, a ratio of 102 to 1.

Citizens are regularly arrested in queues for 'loitering', exceptionally healthy police officers can sprint after crooks for hours on end, holiday-makers leave on the same clandestine boats that illegal immigrants arrive in, and international trade can be a pain to deal with. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very 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 229,348^th in the world and 121^st in Psychotic Dictatorships for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -20.49 on the Clooney Contribution Index.