The Empire of Lesly emirate is a small, orderly nation, notable for its smutty television, flagrant waste-dumping, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 45 million Lesly emirateans are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.7%.

The powerhouse Lesly emiratian economy, worth 4.50 trillion Gold coin and cryptocurrencies a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an impressive 100,016 Gold coin and cryptocurrencies, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 540,367 per year while the poor average 9,591, a ratio of 56.3 to 1.

College students make ends meet by selling their kidneys, programmes of questionable content are shown at peak-hours, stone wrist watches that weigh 20lb are the latest trend, and elections demand a proportionate response. Crime, especially youth-related, is a major problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Lesly emirate's national animal is the Sphinx and Kraken, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Lesly emirate is ranked 8,467^th in the world and 335^th in Osiris for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 117.63 on the Bus Surprisal Index.