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 state-planned economy, ubiquitous missile silos, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 30.529 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, although Law & Order, Administration, and Industry are also considered important, 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 19,205 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 629,082 pfft DEAREST LEADER OWNS ALLS, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 3,955,415 per year while the poor average 42,147, a ratio of 93.8 to 1.

The military invades any neighboring nation with the gall to criticize its policies, human sacrifice to the metaphorical altar of Mammon ensures national prosperity, government ministers claim to ride dragons to work, and the nation's government buildings are remarkable for being ugly concrete boxes. 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 71,826^th in the world and 54^th in Psychotic Dictatorships for Largest Information Technology Sector, scoring 4,525.13 on the Fann-Boi Productivity Index.