The Republic of Eelysia is a huge, socially progressive nation, notable for its devotion to social welfare and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 625 million Eelysians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 45.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Eelysian economy, worth 17.9 trillion Drachmas a year, is quite specialized and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with significant contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 28,650 Drachmas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Religious households enthusiastically use whips in private, the slowest students feel vaguely targeted by their Mendelian Inheritance coursework, the national security service are a bunch of crooks, and vital intelligence-gathering activities are put on hold as agents return home for seduction training and advanced poker instruction. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Eelysia's national animal is the Capybara , which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Eelysia is ranked 207,288^th in the world and 577^th in Concord for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 289.37 on the Gilded Widget Scale.