The Republic of Elead is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Supreme Commander Walter Ford with an iron fist, and renowned for its enslaved workforce, hatred of cheese, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 1.147 billion Eleadites are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Arzareth. The average income tax rate is 57.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Eleadean economy, worth 121 trillion dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 106,047 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

The nation's interest in space is at an all-time high while interest in saving the planet is at an all-time low, homebuyers must agree to name their firstborn after the previous owner, families waiting for delayed pipe installations hope daily for rain, and sociologists ponder how baby-napped ethnic minority 'runaways' could have gone so bad so soon. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Elead's national animal is the dove, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Eleadean Christianity.

Elead is ranked 36,122^nd in the world and 83^rd in Fifth Empire for Lowest Crime Rates, with 84.3 law-abiding acts per hour.