The Disputed Territories of Lehrer is a large, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its public floggings, state-planned economy, and irreverence towards religion. The democratic population of 166 million Lehrerians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 69.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Lehrerian economy, worth 3.19 trillion Civils a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Soda Sales and Gambling. Average income is 19,221 Civils, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Activists are attempting to repeal Moore's Law, baseball caps are the new fashion trend, small children are learning a lot of new words from a teacher with Tourette Syndrome, and hospitals fear government fines more than terrorist ransoms. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lehrer's national animal is the California gull, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Lehrer is ranked 78,754^th in the world and 101^st in Karma for Most Cultured, scoring 68 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.