The Nomadic Peoples of Elsiar is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Queen Cassie with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.8 billion Elsiarians 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, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Udney. The average income tax rate is 73.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Elsiarian economy, worth 173 trillion guilders a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Cheese Exports, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 61,891 guilders, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It is quite common for bar patrons to discuss Wittgenstein over cordials and games of backgammon, the police crack down on tax evaders without mercy, paper and ink publications are subsidised by the government to keep them in the black, and government-run screening operations remove embryos with severe genetic disorders. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Elsiar's national animal is the dove, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Druidism.

Elsiar is ranked 244,254^th in the world and 16^th in Maputo for Most Primitive, scoring -135.68 on the Scary Big Number Scale.