The Allied States of Elucubria is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its daily referendums, digital currency, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 221 million Elucubrians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 77.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Elucubrian economy, worth 16.0 trillion auns a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 72,396 auns, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Royalist is the most offensive slur in the Elucubrian language, political detractors refer to Leader as 'that Bigtopian puppet', 100-year-old politicians are now a thing of the past, and urban parents tell their children that the family car went to a farm upstate. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Elucubria's national animal is the Remarque's myna, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Elucubria is ranked 251,604^th in the world and 219^th in Refugia for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 16,072.03 Standard Monetary Units.