The Oppressed Peoples of Elisus is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by The Eminent God Emperor Praenomen Perpet with an iron fist, and notable for its closed borders, disturbing lack of elderly people, and avowedly heterosexual populace. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 10.913 billion Elisians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bemlicae. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 87.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Elisian economy, worth a remarkable 2,170 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 198,854 dollars, with the richest citizens earning 9.7 times as much as the poorest.

Every day is laundry day, morning birdsong has been replaced by the sound of the morning patrol, the country has been 'going shopping' by annexing nearby nations for their resources, and petitioners are increasingly resorting to climbing through The Eminent God Emperor Praenomen Perpet's window to draw attention to their issues. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Elisus's national animal is the bear, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Elisus is ranked 296,594^th in the world and 11,243^rd in Lazarus for Lowest Overall Tax Burden, scoring -211.16 on the Hayek Index.