The Federal Republic of Kelaresia is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its national health service, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 533 million Kelaresians 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 enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Stepanov. The average income tax rate is 66.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Kelaresian economy, worth 11.3 trillion velmiras 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 mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 21,138 velmiras, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Pandemics are over and done with by the time it takes to pass the nation's stringent border security, politicians bribe ten-year-old geniuses to sit their aptitude tests, it is illegal for police officers to carry out searches due to strict privacy laws, and road signs are getting harder to read under layers of knitted woolen cardigans. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kelaresia's national animal is the starling, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Kelaresia is ranked 125,677^th in the world and 552^nd in The Leftist Assembly for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 601.36 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.