The Council Republic of The AbelLandia is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Taco Schmidt with an even hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, infamous sell-swords, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, devout population of 1.128 billion AbelLandians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rotterdam. The average income tax rate is 66.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming AbelLandian economy, worth 155 trillion Schurfies a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Basket Weaving. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 137,954 Schurfies, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

RPG fans reminisce fondly about when people thought they were evil and dangerous rather than geeky and socially inept, commemoration of the Great Europe War costs almost as much as the war itself, TV coverage of music festivals consists mostly of backstage interviews, and mining is the nation's most dangerous occupation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. The AbelLandia's national animal is the Lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Christianity.

The AbelLandia is ranked 275,496^th in the world and 1,383^rd in Europe for Safest, scoring 7.28 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.