The Fiefdom of Elklan is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Tony Tony Chopper with a fair hand, and renowned for its pith helmet sales, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.13 billion Elklanians 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 large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Moselk. The average income tax rate is 88.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Elklanian economy, worth 267 trillion meeses a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 125,815 meeses, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The new biography of Tony Tony Chopper is subtitled "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Hate the Bomb", pictures of government employees with expensive Pearbooks 'working' on exotic beaches dominate local tabloids, black gold is looking more brown these days, and copyright laws have been abolished. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Elklan's national animal is the elk, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Song of the Elk.

Elklan is ranked 279,249^th in the world and 2,280^th in the West Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -7.73 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.