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 ritual sacrifices, hatred of cheese, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 30.256 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 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 18,987 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 627,561 pfft DEAREST LEADER OWNS ALLS, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 4,076,103 per year while the poor average 38,507, a ratio of 105 to 1.

Policemen regularly conduct midnight raids on closed donut shops to 'collect evidence', weighted heels are added to military boots to ensure diminutive celebrities meet minimum requirements, terrorist videos start by thanking their sponsors, and it's widely agreed that to tennis players love means nothing. 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 204,672^nd in the world and 150^th in Psychotic Dictatorships for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -21.95 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.