The Ancient Temple of Elue Syeville is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by High Priest Kamielle with an iron fist, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, smutty television, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 9.527 billion Elue Syevilleans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Syeville. The average income tax rate is 84.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Elue Syevillean economy, worth a remarkable 1,808 trillion kronor 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched black market in Retail, Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Information Technology. 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 189,783 kronor, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

The government is crossing the Rubicon in its levels of corruption, what's in your genes matters more than what's in your jeans, school football matches are usually five-a-side, and gambling is outlawed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Elue Syeville's national animal is the lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is History.

Elue Syeville is ranked 116,032^nd in the world and 1^st in Fukui for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 2,756.97 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.