The District of Ellen Mae is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Liard with a fair hand, and notable for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The democratic population of 47.563 billion Mayians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of District City. The average income tax rate is 73.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Ellen Maean economy, worth a remarkable 2,193 trillion aurums a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Retail, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 46,116 aurums, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Foreign governments are threatened if they so much as mention the word "election", sometimes a whole prison wing will house a single prisoner, selling bombs to terrorists has become government policy, and Liard is convinced that other nations can simply be "junked" (Ellen Mae has found 1 easter egg). Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ellen Mae's national animal is the bovina, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ellen Mae is ranked 279,047^th in the world and 1^st in Ellen Mae for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -25.5 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.