The Republic of Elena is a mammoth, cultured nation, notable for its enslaved workforce, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and avowedly heterosexual populace. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 8.844 billion Elenans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 29.0%.

The very strong Elenan economy, worth 638 trillion shillings a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 72,239 shillings, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 386,627 per year while the poor average 7,068, a ratio of 54.7 to 1.

The government has an "easy come, easy go" policy on youth crime, kindergartners' favourite dance move is the stop-drop-and-roll, forty-year-old men are asked for their ID before watching the latest pony cartoon movies, and UFO sightings are listed daily in the morning news. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Elena's national animal is the leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Elena is ranked 60,546^th in the world and 78^th in Remembrance for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 1,676.1 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.