The Holy Empire of Eldemo is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, public floggings, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 317 million Eldemoans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Spirituality, and Education. The average income tax rate is 52.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Eldemoan economy, worth 18.4 trillion Smorals a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 58,168 Smorals, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Eldemo's first free elections in recent memory have been successfully concluded, students returning from overseas study are questioning the status quo, panicking criminals no longer flush contraband down the toilet, and euthanasia is illegal. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Eldemo's national animal is the unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Eldemo is ranked 38,290^th in the world and 1,309^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 76 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.