The People's Republic of Celida is a fledgling, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 6 million Celidans 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, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 70.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The basket case Celidan economy, worth 68.8 billion érdems a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Trout Farming. Average income is 11,466 érdems, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Future forecasters fearfully discuss grey goo and human obsolescence, noises louder than a whisper have been prohibited by law, sex changes are routinely performed at Celida's hospitals, and voter turnout for the election of the Junior Assistant for Non-Digital Media Strategies has been unsurprisingly low. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Celida's national animal is the crow, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Celida is ranked 22,205^th in the world and 516^th in the South Pacific for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 53.84 on the Kitten Softness Rating.