The Fiefdom of Elklan is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Tony Tony Chopper with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, free-roaming dinosaurs, and daily referendums. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.378 billion Elklanians 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 enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Moselk. The average income tax rate is 90.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Elklanian economy, worth 302 trillion meeses a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 126,837 meeses, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Arbitrary election rules are considered sacrosanct, seasonal hay-fever sufferers are attending government drug counselling sessions to get free doughnuts, sex-ed is child's play, and entomologists flock to Moselk for its remarkable gadfly population. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Elklan's national animal is the elk, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Song of the Elk.

Elklan is ranked 66,506^th in the world and 567^th in the West Pacific for Most Politically Free, scoring 75.05 on the Diebold Election Inking Scale.