The Republic of Celnd is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its teetotalling pirates, museums and concert halls, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 890 million Celndians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nyelav City. The average income tax rate is 68.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Celndian economy, worth 47.3 trillion Daris a year, is quite specialized and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 53,164 Daris, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Money that should have gone to charities is instead spent on monitoring them, history textbook pages are used as impromptu tissues by distraught students, interest in globalism never flags, and traveller camps regularly block five-lane superhighways. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Celnd's national animal is the Maine Coon Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Celnd is ranked 27,700^th in the world and 409^th in Europe for Most Cultured, scoring 81 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.