The Fiefdom of Elklan is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Tony Tony Chopper with a fair hand, and renowned for its national health service, daily referendums, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.159 billion Elklanians 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 Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Moselk. The average income tax rate is 89.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Elklanian economy, worth 269 trillion meeses a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 125,017 meeses, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hundreds of sailors ride the good ship Tony Tony Chopper day after day, corporate innovation has effectively ended since ideas can no longer be owned, male cubicle workers stand up every time a woman enters the room, and school kids who pretend to drive imaginary cars get a social worker and a police observer assigned to them. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Elklan's national animal is the elk, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Song of the Elk.

Elklan is ranked 6,036^th in the world and 111^th in the West Pacific for Nicest Citizens, with 41.86 average smiles per day.