The Commonwealth of Elystreia is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 437 million Elystreians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Elysia. The average income tax rate is 73.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Elystreian economy, worth 29.8 trillion elys a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Trout Farming, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 68,104 elys, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Kids laugh off vandalism and arson as "just fun", the comic book series 'Leader and the Villainous Corporate Cronies' is a best-seller, crowded passenger trains are near-silent save for the soft tap of fingers on touchscreens, and 90% of active duty EAF personnel have been laid off and replaced by robot kill-drones. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Elystreia's national animal is the butterfly, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Elystreia is ranked 44,658^th in the world and 367^th in The Leftist Assembly for Smartest Citizens, with 46.41 quips per hour.