The Wilderness of Eloren is a gargantuan, safe nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, infamous sell-swords, and daily referendums. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 12.2 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 Education, Administration, 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 3,682 trillion 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 dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an amazing 301,843 pods, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Politicians are forced to wear portable lie detectors at all times, census workers struggle to account for the rapidly increasing number of citizens to tabulate, young and brooding teens are welcomed with open arms to the Dogwarts School of Strangeness and Sorcery, and bemused citizens are encouraged to sing foreign-language hymns of religions they have never heard of. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Eloren's national animal is the triffid, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is nature worship.

Eloren is ranked 275,516^th in the world and 597^th in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -25.3 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.