The Constitutional Monarchy of Elinthea is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Edmund IV with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 1.036 billion Elintheans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pedellinton. The average income tax rate is 55.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Elinthean economy, worth 55.9 trillion crowns a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 53,920 crowns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Road signs are getting harder to read under layers of knitted woolen cardigans, the government snoops on private internet connections, the nation is noticeably more cheerful on Tuesdays, and sometimes a whole prison wing will house a single prisoner. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Elinthea's national animal is the swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianity.

Elinthea is ranked 16,004^th in the world and 3^rd in Clio for Safest, scoring 115.4 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.