The Plastic Paradise of Elbow Monkey is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, parental licensing program, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 28.684 billion Elbow Monkeys have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Monkey Jungle. The average income tax rate is 69.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Elbow Monkeyian economy, worth a remarkable 2,218 trillion barrels a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Gambling, and Information Technology. Average income is 77,344 barrels, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

The government has put a kid glove on the invisible hand of the free market, a few people seem to spend their whole time complaining, fifteen-year-olds cannot walk younger siblings to school without a professional Childcare and Education Certificate, and tourists call Elbow Monkeyian beach towns "the fine coastline". Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Elbow Monkey's national animal is the monkey, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is hand-holding.

Elbow Monkey is ranked 51,476^th in the world and 1^st in Redundant Realm of Redundancy for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 4,710.78 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.