The Wilderness of Eloren is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, renowned for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, infamous sell-swords, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 15.911 billion Eloren 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, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of the Unbound Glade. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Eloren economy, worth a remarkable 5,518 trillion pods a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an amazing 346,823 pods, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Leader lives life on the open road - complete with groupies, Eloren incessantly needle their doctors for relief, witnesses have to run a gauntlet of mob enforcers to testify at trials, and citizens are allowed to rise or fall based on their own merits. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Eloren's national animal is the bat triffid cow, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is nature worship.

Eloren is ranked 52^nd in the world and 1^st in The Leftist Assembly for Safest, scoring 254.93 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.