The Great Dismal Delve of Laeding is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Great Khan with an iron fist, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, national health service, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 13.383 billion Laedi 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 tiny, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Industry, and Administration also on the agenda, while Environment and Welfare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Sevenfold Mazework. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Laedish economy, worth a remarkable 4,756 trillion daos 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 a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. 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 an amazing 355,414 daos, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

Aid workers deliver life-saving supplies with a devious gleam in their eyes, priests are being drafted by the church load, maximum security fish farms leave caged salmon pining for the fjords, and forty-year-old men are asked for their ID before watching the latest pony cartoon movies. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Laeding's national animal is the lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is divine nationalism.

Laeding is ranked 520^th in the world and 1^st in Esamir for Most Corrupt Governments, with 624.99 kickbacks per hour.