The Republic of Egellea is a huge, efficient nation, notable for its irreverence towards religion, absence of drug laws, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 531 million Egelleans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The tiny government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tetiarte. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.4%.

The very strong Egellean economy, worth 29.7 trillion Pattons a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Retail, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 55,889 Pattons, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 160,300 per year while the poor average 15,501, a ratio of 10.3 to 1.

Reporters who negatively comment on politicians' haircuts are cut from the news, you can bet your bottom dollar that gambling will cost you an arm and a leg, foreign leaders who don't applaud Leader's speeches are regarded as enemies of Egellea, and emergency services don't respond to trailer park fires. Crime is a serious problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Egellea's national animal is the Platypus.

Egellea is ranked 152,788^th in the world and 1^st in Epattonea for Smartest Citizens, with 29.56 quips per hour.