The United Socialist States of Ellisisland is a massive, safe nation, ruled by the Proletariat with an even hand, and notable for its state-planned economy, ban on automobiles, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate population of 3.663 billion little guys enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gaymer Zone. The average income tax rate is 86.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The little guy economy, worth 210 trillion tears of the bourgeoises a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology. Average income is 57,330 tears of the bourgeoises, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Soldiers are slaughtered in their thousands due to lack of training, government theft from poor artists to give to rich allies has been dubbed the "reverse Robin Hood" policy, no one believes anything until it has been strenuously tested and peer-reviewed, and anti-government political posters adorn every building like wallpaper. Crime is totally unknown. Ellisisland's national animal is the aquatic snail, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Gay Frog.

Ellisisland is ranked 61,185^th in the world and 3,582^nd in Balder for Lowest Crime Rates, with 71.54 law-abiding acts per hour.