The United Socialist States of Leonfire is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Alpha Scuti with an even hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, infamous sell-swords, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 10.274 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 Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pantherax. The average income tax rate is 90.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Leonfirean economy, worth 819 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 79,732 Bitts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

High school bands practice by moonlight, pareidolic SETI scientists swear there's a message from aliens hidden within pi, drunk drivers are sent to rehabilitation paid for by the government, and Alpha Scuti spends weekends doing the laundry of foreign leaders. 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 22,525^th in the world and 890^th in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 262.1 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.