The Matriarchy of Aeljae is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Sasha Avina von Aeljae with a fair hand, and renowned for its compulsory military service, pith helmet sales, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.201 billion Aeljaeans 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 medium-sized, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Elja. The average income tax rate is 86.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Aeljaean economy, worth 373 trillion kronor a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 169,673 kronor, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Nephews and nieces of the monarch resort to begging from relatives in palace halls, the Smalltopian embassy doubles as an electoral campaign headquarters, Aeljae's children are widely acknowledged as the most foul-mouthed in the region, and census workers struggle to account for the rapidly increasing number of citizens to tabulate. Crime is totally unknown. Aeljae's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Aeljae is ranked 6,195^th in the world and 149^th in The East Pacific for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 57.39 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.