The Constitutional Monarchy of Elinthea is a huge, cultured nation, ruled by Edmund IV with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, zero percent divorce rate, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 986 million Elintheans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pedellinton. The average income tax rate is 53.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Elinthean economy, worth 52.3 trillion crowns a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 53,006 crowns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Nine-year-olds are discovering that they can grow gardens in real life too, foreign governments are threatened if they so much as mention the word "election", the thin blue line is composed of picketing police officers demanding better pensions, and biotech companies are fined if their jumbled genetic sequences look too familiar. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Elinthea's national animal is the swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Elinthea is ranked 249,756^th in the world and 3^rd in Clio for Largest Populations, with 986 million capita.