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The Crystal leth dealing cabal of Lethen is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Malcolm Mason with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, democratic, cheerful population of 40.038 billion Lethenians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The tiny government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Arnhelm. The average income tax rate is 2.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Lethenian economy, worth a remarkable 8,997 trillion Golden Farbs a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 224,721 Golden Farbs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Newly synthesized elements' half-lives are a million times shorter than the time it takes to say their names, movies depict muscle-bound women kicking down a titanium door to carry hysterical men to safety, jail house rock has been replaced with jail house golden oldies, and the nation's green cities are indeed concrete jungles. Crime is totally unknown. Lethen's national animal is the penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Masonic love fest.

Lethen is ranked 313,185^th in the world and 1,285^th in Europeia for Most Primitive, scoring -645.01 on the Scary Big Number Scale.