The Queendom of Ciellan is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, pith helmet sales, and lack of airports. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 141 million Swanborne are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 69.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Swanborne economy, worth 5.11 trillion Plumes a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Book Publishing, and Soda Sales. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 36,232 Plumes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hundreds of subterranean tunnels are being built as part of "Project Morlock", all statues and paintings of dogs are being destroyed to avoid offending cat-lovers, Court TV ratings have skyrocketed now that executions are filmed on location, and intellectual snobbery has the cognoscenti sneering at anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the semiological drift of Umberto Eco's works. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ciellan's national animal is the Swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ciellan is ranked 126,254^th in the world and 1^st in Paidi Kyknos for Safest, scoring 70.25 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.