The Confederacy of Elwher is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Fah Lo Suee with an even hand, and remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, flagrant waste-dumping, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 25.973 billion Elwherites enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tanelorn. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Elwherian economy, worth an astonishing 15,689 trillion Gold Dragons a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Soda Sales, and Gambling. Average income is a breathtaking 604,067 Gold Dragons, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,859,346 per year while the poor average 75,466, a ratio of 37.9 to 1.

Creating cardboard imitations of missiles is a new top-secret military project, newly synthesized elements' half-lives are a million times shorter than the time it takes to say their names, the nation's most "productive" diamond mine hasn't been operational for seven months, and children have lost interest in toy guns in favor of toy meth lab kits. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Elwher's national animal is the Phoorn dragon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is None.

Elwher is ranked 1,644^th in the world and 1^st in Libertarium for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 32,882.35 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.