The Plastic Paradise of Elbow Monkey is a gargantuan, cultured nation, renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, daily referendums, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 28.909 billion Elbow Monkeys have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Monkey Jungle. The average income tax rate is 69.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Elbow Monkeyian economy, worth a remarkable 2,242 trillion barrels a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Gambling, and Information Technology. Average income is 77,578 barrels, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Fifteen-year-olds cannot walk younger siblings to school without a professional Childcare and Education Certificate, tourists call Elbow Monkeyian beach towns "the fine coastline", the fattest folk in Elbow Monkey look to be the happiest ones, and viewers get headaches from trying to read the screen full of small print warnings that precede most TV shows. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Elbow Monkey's national animal is the monkey, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is hand-holding.

Elbow Monkey is ranked 289,333^rd in the world and 13^th in Redundant Realm of Redundancy for Nicest Citizens, with 0.78 average smiles per day.