The Kingdom of Lere is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical population of 1.654 billion Lerens 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 relatively small, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.4%.

The very strong Lerish economy, worth 112 trillion dddds a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 68,049 dddds, with the richest citizens earning 8.9 times as much as the poorest.

Genetic researchers have been expelled, a well-funded social safety net protects the unfortunate, large areas of Lere are not accessible by the public, and the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low. Lere's national animal is the ddd, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Lere is ranked 255,010^th in the world and 40^th in Shots Puppets for Largest Black Market, with 157 billion Standard Monetary Units.