The Great Dismal Delve of Laeding is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Great Khan with an iron fist, and renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, otherworldly petting zoo, and triple-decker prams. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 13.774 billion Laedi 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 tiny, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Industry, and Administration are also considered important, while Environment and Welfare are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Sevenfold Mazework. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Laedish economy, worth a remarkable 4,882 trillion daos 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 large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. 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 an amazing 354,500 daos, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

The black market offers sweet deals, the past is set in stone, overhead luggage compartments on planes sometimes conceal diminutive intelligence officers, and jaywalking will put an end to a family tree. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force. Laeding's national animal is the lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is divine nationalism.

Laeding is ranked 309,870^th in the world and 11^th in Esamir for Most Cultured, scoring -42 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.