The Holy Celestial Death Angel of Elegarth is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by God Emperor Elegarth with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, public floggings, and parental licensing program. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 33.509 billion Elegarthians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of EleGard. The average income tax rate is 75.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Elegarthian economy, worth an astonishing 11,139 trillion Gold Coins a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 332,432 Gold Coins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.1 times as much as the poorest.

Consumers are free to choose - so long as they choose Eckie-Ecola or Eckie-Cola, sibling rivalry has become a favorite topic for developmental psychologists, politicians constantly ring their voters to remind them how good a job they're doing, and pharmaceutical companies emphatically promise that "your pills are in the mail" rather than admit any supply shortfall. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Elegarth's national animal is the Vampire, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Atheism.

Elegarth is ranked 4,435^th in the world and 69^th in the West Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 592.08 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.