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The Queendom of Elanore is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Queen Abby Schwarzenbach with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, zero percent divorce rate, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 8.153 billion Elanoreans 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 relatively small, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kimberly. The average income tax rate is 21.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Elanorean economy, worth 183 trillion Mynts a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 22,462 Mynts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The seventh son of a seventh son is fated to be a millionaire, Queen Abby Schwarzenbach's perky ego is the talk of the town, snap elections are called over every minor impasse, and t-shirts displaying a photo of Queen Abby Schwarzenbach performing the Full-Monty are selling out. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Elanore's national animal is the Linberry Fae, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Islam and Christianity.

Elanore is ranked 59,987^th in the world and 239^th in Europeia for Largest Governments, scoring 20.71 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.