The State of Keldyn is a gargantuan, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 32.436 billion Keldynians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, outspoken government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Industry, with Education also on the agenda, while Defense and Spirituality aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.4%.

The thriving Keldynian economy, worth a remarkable 1,155 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is quite specialized and led by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 35,632 betales, with the richest citizens earning 8.9 times as much as the poorest.

Voting is voluntary, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, the mining industry is making inroads into environmentally sensitive areas, and Keldyn has designated Capital Heights as its capital city. Crime is a problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Keldyn's national animal is the deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Keldyn is ranked 119,460^th in the world and 114^th in State for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.