The Democratic States of Lergotum is a very large, orderly nation, notable for its closed borders, enslaved workforce, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 160 million Lergotumen are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 74.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Lergotumian economy, worth 8.37 trillion koronns 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 a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Uranium Mining. 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 52,339 koronns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Gift hampers filled with delicious beef jerky are sent to newly communist nations, infantry are nicknamed "mushrooms" because they get fed crap and are left in the dark, women across the country are tying the knot, and astronomers are flocking to Lergotum to take advantage of its clear night skies. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lergotum's national animal is the Thief Ant, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Lergotum is ranked 16,938^th in the world and 522^nd in the Rejected Realms for Most Patriotic, with 51.26 flags saluted per person per day.