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 renowned for its closed borders, lack of airports, and parental licensing program. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 30.076 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, with Law & Order, Administration, and Industry also on the agenda, while Environment and Welfare receive no funds. 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 18,808 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 625,363 pfft DEAREST LEADER OWNS ALLS, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 4,015,049 per year while the poor average 39,616, a ratio of 101 to 1.

Military pistols are more secure than the national treasury, artists regularly face criminal charges and art-burning parties are common, the might of the entire Menta Lee-ILian Navy is focused on fifty bemused spear-throwing islanders, and Maxtopians are both starving and giddy after the Menta Lee-ILian military unleashed its biological weapons. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a 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 206,062^nd in the world and 156^th in Psychotic Dictatorships for Most Developed, scoring 19.92 on the Human Development Index.