The Endless Empire of Ermarian is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Empress Prazac XII with an even hand, and remarkable for its public floggings, irreverence towards religion, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 46.81 billion Ermarianese are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dawn. The average income tax rate is 98.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Ermarianese economy, worth a remarkable 7,200 trillion imperials a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 153,821 imperials, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There's no such thing as a safe bet, the nation's universities are often mistaken for foreign embassies, criminal convictions are routinely thrown out because the accused's grandmother didn't get to testify about their good character, and a degree in Empress Prazac XII Science with a Minor in Awesomeology starts many political careers. Crime is totally unknown. Ermarian's national animal is the pony, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is abolished.

Ermarian is ranked 10,773^rd in the world and 447^th in The North Pacific for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 62.74 on the Kitten Softness Rating.