The Republic of Singer Ellie Goulding is a colossal, cultured nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, infamous sell-swords, and avant-garde cinema. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 5.015 billion Singer Ellie Gouldingians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of London. The average income tax rate is 95.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Singer Ellie Gouldingian economy, worth a remarkable 2,377 trillion Pound Sterlings a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 474,070 Pound Sterlings, with the richest citizens earning 5.4 times as much as the poorest.

The immigration office has an express line for people bringing cash in briefcases, primetime re-runs of The Black and White Minstrel Show are a critical hit, nobody is quite sure what the government's last policy decision was but fans are saying it'll make Singer Ellie Goulding great again, and war is made in the name of love. Crime, especially youth-related, is a major problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Singer Ellie Goulding's national animal is the Lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Singer Ellie Goulding is ranked 6,438^th in the world and 26^th in Goddess White for Most Corrupt Governments, with 196.31 kickbacks per hour.