The Republic of Lepreconia is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by President Jurgens with an iron fist, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, compulsory military service, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 1.296 billion Lepreconians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Jurgentown. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Lepreconian economy, worth 259 trillion Lepreconian Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 200,119 Lepreconian Dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,818,008 per year while the poor average 2,535, a ratio of 716 to 1.

Politicians always seem to take two steps forward then three steps back, gossip magazines are more interested in astrological stars than celebrity ones, street food vendors are accompanied by personal fleets of garbage trucks, and sneezing pedestrians are grabbed by alley-lurking doctors. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Lepreconia's national animal is the Giraffe, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Evangelical Protestantism.

Lepreconia is ranked 2,993^rd in the world and 6^th in Der Leibwache for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 7,339.85 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.