The Fersmoar of Ellese is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Fer Misrl Salle with an iron fist, and notable for its keen interest in outer space, daily referendums, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.677 billion Elleseans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Torsvilo. The average income tax rate is 72.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Ellesean economy, worth 315 trillion Kyes a year, is quite specialized and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 67,441 Kyes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

The government spends more on chasing distant comets than on basic infrastructure, the Museum of Blackacrean War Crimes is located on "Blackacre Did Nothing Wrong Avenue", banana distribution among collective farm workers is an important topic in public discourse, and the roundel of the Ellesean Air Force has become an internationally recognized symbol of destruction. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ellese's national animal is the Aspaos, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Orthodox Christianity.

Ellese is ranked 292,803^rd in the world and 37^th in Byzantion for Most Extensive Civil Rights, with 12.92 Martin Luther King, Jr. Units.