The Protectorate of Leeta is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, vat-grown people, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, devout population of 964 million Leetans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Opossum Town. The average income tax rate is 76.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Leetan economy, worth 15.0 trillion moons a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Book Publishing, and Tourism. Average income is 15,607 moons, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Scientists earn more grant money for reproducing old experiments than trying anything new, the sound of wooden legs echo throughout Leeta after the recent introduction of the Foot Tax, all tribal children are set for life with guaranteed government jobs, and children gain their first sex education from reading the dictionary. Crime is totally unknown. Leeta's national animal is the opossum, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Leeta is ranked 31,001^st in the world and 5^th in Swallowtail for Highest Drug Use, scoring 346.75 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.