The Republic of Elder Diache is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, parental licensing program, and zero percent divorce rate. The humorless, devout population of 6.432 billion Elder Diacheans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 70.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Elder Diachean economy, worth 863 trillion Gems a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 134,222 Gems, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

In the mighty jungle the lion once again sleeps tonight, tombstones are ten feet high to accommodate the names of inhabitants, charged suspects often have to wait years before the courts have room to judge their trial, and sick Elder Diacheans are hair today and gone tomorrow. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Elder Diache's national animal is the Asherton, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Elder Diache is ranked 43,493^rd in the world and 9^th in Paichnidi for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 2,150.67 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.