The Wilderness of Eloren is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, soft-spoken computers, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 15.864 billion Eloren are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of the Unbound Glade. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Eloren economy, worth a remarkable 5,494 trillion pods 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 Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an amazing 346,336 pods, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is more interested in identifying problems than fixing them, large sections of Eloren have been named national reserves to protect the native tribes living there, guide dogs for the blind have been seen using government websites, and third world countries are rich in "I Love The Unbound Glade" t-shirts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Eloren's national animal is the bat triffid cow, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is nature worship.

Eloren is ranked 294,399^th in the world and 387^th in The Leftist Assembly for Highest Disposable Incomes, with zero Standard Monetary Units.