The Defender Elite of Elite is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Elite with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, democratic population of 15.904 billion Elite 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 government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Elite. The average income tax rate is 70.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Elite economy, worth 493 trillion Elites a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 31,053 Elites, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Therapists dispense hugs for heroin dealers and cuddles for crackheads, it can be a real jungle in a modern courtroom, every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead, and Elite submit requests for a date in writing with an enclosed RSVP card. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Elite's national animal is the Elite, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Elite is ranked 137,338^th in the world and 282^nd in 10000 Islands for Most Armed, with 0.33 weapons per person.