The Republic of Kelipnia is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Katherine Gabriella Williamson with a fair hand, and remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 1.514 billion Kelipnians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kurcross Du Luceminstead. The average income tax rate is 58.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Kelipnian economy, worth 163 trillion Kepings a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Automobile Manufacturing, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 107,928 Kepings, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Community organizers have given up going door to door because nobody is home, future forecasters fearfully discuss grey goo and human obsolescence, police officers often conceal their identities to safeguard against public complaints, and crooks and people with too many kids are being kicked out of the country. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kelipnia's national animal is the Antelope, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Secularism.

Kelipnia is ranked 266,219^th in the world and 218^th in Forest for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.71 kickbacks per hour.