The Rogue Nation of El Lez is a small, orderly nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 32 million El Lezians 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 enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 69.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The struggling El Lezian economy, worth 578 billion Lez Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Furniture Restoration, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 18,074 Lez Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

All major public areas are watched by police surveillance cameras and they say that El Lezians made a dessert and called it peace. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. El Lez's national animal is the Leviathan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

El Lez is ranked 223,477^th in the world and 18^th in A Short Walk to Utopia for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 760.13 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.