The Republic of Lepreconia is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by President Jurgens with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, barren, inhospitable landscape, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 1.29 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 257 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 impressive 199,952 Lepreconian Dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,816,488 per year while the poor average 2,533, a ratio of 716 to 1.

Religious bigotry and a fear of outsiders have replaced religious studies in schools, protestors are soaking piles of Lepreconian Dollars in blood to make a point about government incomes, politicians always seem to take two steps forward then three steps back, and gossip magazines are more interested in astrological stars than celebrity ones. 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 231,306^th in the world and 30^th in Der Leibwache for Largest Populations, with 1.29 billion capita.