The Holy Lucky Gold Wilderness of Eloren is a gargantuan, cultured nation, renowned for its punitive income tax rates, restrictive gun laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 13.512 billion Eloren 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 large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of the Unbound Glade. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Eloren economy, worth a remarkable 4,268 trillion gold pods a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an amazing 315,877 gold pods, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Burning twigs to keep warm while lost in the wild is now a felony, almost half of the child population live rough on the streets, life-saving resuscitation is denied based on decades-old teenage diaries that declare "I want to die before I get old", and public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Eloren's national animal is the bat triffid cow, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is nature worship.

Eloren is ranked 1,391^st in the world and 7^th in The Leftist Assembly for Lowest Crime Rates, with 150.31 law-abiding acts per hour.