The Republic of E lf z is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its avant-garde cinema, public floggings, and suspicion of poets. The quiet, industrious population of 1.718 billion E lf zians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 32.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The E lf zian economy, worth 85.0 trillion pounds a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Cheese Exports, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 49,501 pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

There is a growing belief that consciousness is a simulated illusion within a computer-generated reality, citizens live in superstitious fear of the mysterious glowing clouds that float over E lf z, a major religion has been named as E lf z's national religion, and Leader has just been declared ruler of E lf z in an international press conference. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. E lf z's national animal is the cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

E lf z is ranked 164,926^th in the world and 607^th in junk for Most Developed, scoring 54.94 on the Human Development Index.