The Democratic People's Republic of VR Leona is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by President Johnev Parkson with an iron fist, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 1.965 billion VR Leonans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Leonagrad. The average income tax rate is 92.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming VR Leonan economy, worth 204 trillion Leona-Won a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Cheese Exports. Average income is an impressive 103,958 Leona-Won, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Ersatz chicken has left the nation's citizens with a bad taste in their mouths, would-be emigrants are told "abandon all hope all ye who would exit here", teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers, and kids are exceptionally good at digging holes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. VR Leona's national animal is the ant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is State atheism.

VR Leona is ranked 16,213^th in the world and 408^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 8,906.76 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.