The Fiefdom of Elklan is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Tony Tony Chopper with a fair hand, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, sprawling nuclear power plants, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.078 billion Elklanians 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 large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Moselk. The average income tax rate is 87.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Elklanian economy, worth 258 trillion meeses a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 124,433 meeses, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Burnt-out forty-foot-tall wicker men dot the countryside, wilderness-dwelling hermits are surprised to find railway stations on their front doorsteps, the government is full of esquivalience, and the government sells explosives to fund bomb squads. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Elklan's national animal is the elk, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Song of the Elk.

Elklan is ranked 10,344^th in the world and 167^th in the West Pacific for Most Developed, scoring 90.39 on the Human Development Index.