The Kingdom of Upper Ellisse is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by The Glorious and Noteworthy Radical Cow with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 3.327 billion Ellisseans 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 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 Gratuitous Cheesewheels. The average income tax rate is 98.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Ellissean economy, worth 478 trillion radical ideas-styled currencies a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 143,891 radical ideas-styled currencies, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Serial commas clarify the relationship between one's lackeys, the taxpayers, and kinsfolk, the new Refuse Hills housing development is under construction, CEOs can't hear the term 'Fire Sale' without bursting into tears, and many in Upper Ellisse are born in the purple. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Upper Ellisse's national animal is the pigeon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is The Cult of Timbuktu.

Upper Ellisse is ranked 6,166^th in the world and 139^th in The East Pacific for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 15,102.29 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.