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Imagine a country where you had to be named Lester in order to select who got elected to political office.

Sounds ridiculous. Unless you're named Lester and think you should run the country.

But, according to Harvard law professor and author Lawrence Lessig, that's exactly what's happening now. Lessig's book ``Lesterland,'' is a short read that outlines the corrupt nature of the campaign financing system.

In fictional Lesterland, a country of 311 million people, the 144,000 folks named Lester make the political decisions. That represents the real United States where the same number of people – about 0.05 percent of the population – supply the money for political campaigns. An even smaller number, 132 Americans, gave 60 percent of the SuperPac money spent in the last election cycle, according to Lessig.

Money, or course, drive politics. One of the obstacles to challenging incumbent Congress members is money.

Lessig, and others, estimate that members of Congress spend 30 to 70 percent of their time raising funds to stay in Congress. They build up huge political war chests, which discourages many challengers from even running.