The Free Land of Elwyn-Maria is a colossal, cultured nation, renowned for its smutty television, absence of drug laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 8.042 billion Elwyn-Marians enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The enormous, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 73.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Elwyn-Marian economy, worth 347 trillion native tears 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, highly specialized black market in Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. 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 43,201 native tears, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Elwyn-Maria has designated Elwyn-Maria City as its capital city, allergy-sufferers must wear gas masks before venturing outdoors, everyone apparently sends Leader hair-filled lockets, offers to die heroically, and poetic desires to co-parent a child, and elementary school students are required to master Bach's Chaconne in D before graduation. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Elwyn-Maria's national animal is the Black Hawk, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Elwyn-Maria is ranked 15,516^th in the world and 341^st in the Rejected Realms for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 1,383.41 on the Clooney Contribution Index.