The Holy Gold Christmas of Eljarbk is a colossal, orderly nation, renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, free-roaming dinosaurs, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 4.335 billion Eljar are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Defense, with Industry also on the agenda, while International Aid and Environment aren't funded at all. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 3.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Eljarbkt economy, worth 645 trillion gold bars a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Gambling, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an impressive 148,798 gold bars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,352,479 per year while the poor average 1,876, a ratio of 720 to 1.

The word "sexagenarian" has taken on a whole new meaning, the barter economy has taken over as the gold bar has become worthless, most foreigners can't name the leader of Eljarbk, and Eljarbkt politicians are often described as having more style than substance. Crime is all-pervasive, probably because of the absence of a police force. Eljarbk's national animal is the Mountain Lion, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Eljarbk is ranked 149,865^th in the world and 8^th in Aessui for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 1,528.02 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.