The Republic of Kelipnia is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Malcolm Inez Lucas with a fair hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 1.549 billion Kelipnians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kurcross Du Luceminstead. The average income tax rate is 61.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Kelipnian economy, worth 162 trillion Kepings a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Automobile Manufacturing, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 104,897 Kepings, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Wounded veterans can only get prosthetics if they agree to become walking billboards for the arms industry, most Kelipnians would sell their own grandmother, feeling like a winner comes at a price, and pocket calculators are seen as status symbols for the ostentatiously wealthy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kelipnia's national animal is the Antelope, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Secularism.

Kelipnia is ranked 72,750^th in the world and 102^nd in Forest for Most Patriotic, with 19.3 flags saluted per person per day.