The Republic of Elipsis is a small, socially progressive nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 26 million Elipsians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 71.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The struggling Elipsisian economy, worth 565 billion Thorns 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 Tourism industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 21,748 Thorns, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Betting pennies on games of Go Fish is considered deviant, the nation grinds to a halt for afternoon tea, 1% of global paper production is bound for the National Archive, and helping grandma with her Misgendering 101 homework is a national rite of passage. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Elipsis's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Elipsis is ranked 298,065^th in the world and 160^th in Democratic Socialist Assembly for Most Developed, scoring 50.05 on the Human Development Index.