The Grand Duchy of Eldarien is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Grand Duke Baldridge with a fair hand, and notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.49 billion Eldarios are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Libertatia. The average income tax rate is 71.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Eldariano economy, worth 136 trillion Velars a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 91,285 Velars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Grand Duke Baldridge's power is effectively nullified as no bill becomes law without the upper house's support, no one is worried about government policies any more, grade school teachers mark homework with red "CITATION NEEDED" stamps, and tourists outnumber citizens two to one. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Eldarien's national animal is the Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Agnostic.

Eldarien is ranked 9,130^th in the world and 1^st in Norrsken for Nicest Citizens, with 32.35 average smiles per day.