The Republic of St Lennys Island is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by General Enquiry with a fair hand, and renowned for its national health service, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 6.393 billion St Lennyians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of District of Danicalese. The average income tax rate is 81.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient St Lennys Islandian economy, worth 846 trillion Jelly sweets a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 132,480 Jelly sweets, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It's believed that women's brains will overheat if they think for themselves, stage mothers commonly give their children the nickname 'Cash', most St Lennyians would sell their own grandmother, and the bonfire of the old paper records can be seen for miles around District of Danicalese. Crime is totally unknown. St Lennys Island's national animal is the Hippo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Pluviophilism.

St Lennys Island is ranked 14,443^rd in the world and 206^th in 10000 Islands for Most Efficient Economies, scoring 100.02 on the Krugman-Greenspan Business Outlook Index.