The Republic of Elured is a colossal, orderly nation, renowned for its absence of drug laws and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-working, cynical, devout population of 5.468 billion Eluredians enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The relatively small, liberal, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Law & Order, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.9%.

The very strong Eluredian economy, worth 300 trillion rubledollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Information Technology, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 55,017 rubledollars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 285,325 per year while the poor average 5,748, a ratio of 49.6 to 1.

Crime is a problem. Elured's national animal is the hawk.

Elured is ranked 98,906^th in the world and 3,271^st in Suspicious for Most Corrupt Governments, with 13.35 kickbacks per hour.