The Swedish Protector of Ichu is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Yodle with an iron fist, and remarkable for its fear of technology, disturbing lack of elderly people, and ban on automobiles. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 16.877 billion Ichuans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Law & Order, with Administration, Industry, and Defense also on the agenda, while Education isn't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of NationStates. The average income tax rate is 99.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Ichuan economy, worth a remarkable 4,820 trillion Gold Coins a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Uranium Mining, Furniture Restoration, Woodchip Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is an amazing 285,607 Gold Coins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

Prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators, flatulent people are left to die of cancer at the end of hospital waiting lists, holiday-makers leave on the same clandestine boats that illegal immigrants arrive in, and the government maintains a Department of Skulduggery. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Ichu's national animal is the zombie, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Yodlism.

Ichu is ranked 207^th in the world and 1^st in Sweden for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 26,830.7 on the Gilded Widget Scale.