The United Socialist States of Leonfire is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Alpha Scuti with an even hand, and remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, keen interest in outer space, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 11.428 billion Leonfireans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pantherax. The average income tax rate is 90.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Leonfirean economy, worth 936 trillion Bitts a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Information Technology industry. Average income is 81,952 Bitts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Alpha Scuti spends weekends doing the laundry of foreign leaders, children are raised bilingual from an early age, bad punctuation has come to a full stop, and the seventh son of a seventh son is fated to be a millionaire. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Leonfire's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Leonfire is ranked 307,326^th in the world and 5,712^th in The North Pacific for Largest Mining Sector, scoring -14 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.