The Empire of El psy congroo is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, avant-garde cinema, and irreverence towards religion. The quiet, industrious population of 960 million El psy congrooans 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 government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mohanjodaro. The average income tax rate is 27.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The El psy congrooan economy, worth 43.7 trillion steins gates a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient black market in Uranium Mining, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Arms Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 45,550 steins gates, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The "Underwear of Women in Power" issue of The Mohanjodaro Times is sold out, there are six more weeks of winter if a northerner sees his shadow, clowns are being rounded up and admitted to mental institutions, and a crusade against barbaric religious practices has begun. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. El psy congroo's national animal is the rabbit.

El psy congroo is ranked 155,788^th in the world and 119^th in Anteria for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 517.88 on the Gilded Widget Scale.