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 pith helmet sales, strictly enforced bedtime, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 28.414 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 enormous, 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 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 16,867 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 593,634 pfft DEAREST LEADER OWNS ALLS, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,116,207 per year while the poor average 119,777, a ratio of 17.7 to 1.

Oil rigs in winter are heated by contained oil slick fires, fortified nursing homes are wracked with daily skirmishes, military spending is on the increase, and anti-environmentalist dissidents must beware of government plants in their midst. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. 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 168,274^th in the world and 82^nd in Psychotic Dictatorships for Most Developed, scoring 19.34 on the Human Development Index.