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The Holy Lucky Christmas of Nu Elysium is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Santa Claus with a fair hand, and remarkable for its national health service, ubiquitous missile silos, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, cheerful population of 1.781 billion Nu 'lysians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yggdrassil. The average income tax rate is 77.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient 'lysian economy, worth 261 trillion Gold Bars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 146,854 Gold Bars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The education system is being cleansed of all corporate influence, when flight control tells pilots to alter course the usual reply is "No, YOU move!", public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers, and diplomatic fallout tends to be much more dangerous than radioactive fallout. Crime is totally unknown. Nu Elysium's national animal is the orca, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Nu Elysium is ranked 93,793^rd in the world and 2^nd in Avonesia for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 3,387.54 on the Hickory Productivity Index.