The Holy Empire of L E F is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Lord Eteros with an iron fist, and remarkable for its enslaved workforce, complete lack of prisons, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 37.142 billion LEFians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The minute, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Defense, Spirituality, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Eternal City. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient L E Fian economy, worth a remarkable 8,495 trillion gold coins a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Retail, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an amazing 228,740 gold coins, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,126,508 per year while the poor average 2,261, a ratio of 940 to 1.

Oddly simian-looking religious thugs beat up anyone who suggests humans are related to monkeys, economists confusingly list "fusarium rot and leaf blight" as major risk factors for monetary deflation, citizens complain about a burning sensation after bathing, and drugs containing the compound "oleum de serpens" are being sold to cancer patients. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. L E F's national animal is the Dragon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Imperial Cult.

L E F is ranked 101,139^th in the world and 22^nd in Independent Order for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 84.87 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.