The Glorious Matriarchy of Elderflower Island is a gargantuan, genial nation, remarkable for its daily referendums, national health service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cheerful population of 11.752 billion Elderflowers are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cordial City. The average income tax rate is 99.3%.

The large but sluggish Elderflowerish economy, worth 581 trillion elderberries a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is 49,507 elderberries, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Criminals are really screwed, government reports are now used to teach toddlers to read, military equipment stores have a tendency to go up in flames, and prisons are filled with the cackles and sobs of a deranged inmate population. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Elderflower Island's national animal is the blackbird, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Elderflower Island is ranked 251,954^th in the world and 3^rd in Rainbow Isles for Most Primitive, scoring -157.32 on the Scary Big Number Scale.