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 prohibition of alcohol, strictly enforced bedtime, and hatred of cheese. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 36.385 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 are ignored. 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 23,174 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 636,911 pfft DEAREST LEADER OWNS ALLS, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 4,027,353 per year while the poor average 42,038, a ratio of 95.8 to 1.

Entire provinces are populated solely by nuclear missile technicians and military police, the only Maxxmas gift frontline troops receive from officers is a bullet with the enemy's name on it, decreased demand for toilets is saving the prison service a lot of money, and DEAREST LEADER Menta Lee-IL often plays real life games of Tower Defense against hordes of angry villagers. 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 294^th in the world and 1^st in Psychotic Dictatorships for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 23,967.36 on the Gilded Widget Scale.