The Democratic States of Lergotum is a very large, safe nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 150 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 73.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Lergotumian economy, worth 7.77 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, and Furniture Restoration. 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 51,806 koronns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Animal liberationists receive government funding to break into animal research labs, the dish 'poisson avec poison' is only available on the black market, adulthood begins with the creation of an email account, and the government is well known for declaring war on other countries for suspected slights. 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 251,163^rd in the world and 5,408^th in the Rejected Realms for Largest Populations, with 150 million capita.