The Republic of Erando is a massive, genial nation, ruled by President Garg with a fair hand, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.685 billion Erandoans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Haloni. The average income tax rate is 68.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Erandoan economy, worth 226 trillion Calloes a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 134,600 Calloes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Birth rates have hit an all-time low, the government is on the side of working people (like CEOs, bankers and billionaires), the law says it's okay to sell a bomb to a terrorist so long as they promise not to detonate it, and the nation's industries are scrambling to switch to biodegradable plastics. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Erando's national animal is the Elephant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Dianity.

Erando is ranked 33,849^th in the world and 1^st in Atropia for Highest Average Incomes, with 134,600.49 Standard Monetary Units.