The Gold and Silver Holdings of Electrum is a gargantuan, efficient nation, renowned for its avant-garde cinema, infamous sell-swords, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 11.106 billion Electrumites have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government prioritizes Education, although Healthcare, Industry, and Law & Order are also considered important, while Spirituality and Defense aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Centralis. The average income tax rate is 66.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Electrumian economy, worth a remarkable 1,741 trillion Synergies a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Soda Sales. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 156,769 Synergies, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Surrogate mothers are encouraged to refer to their wombs as 'rental space', there is a growing belief that consciousness is a simulated illusion within a computer-generated reality, 'To Regulate And Beyond' is the unofficial motto of the Electrumian Space Agency, and groups of government workers are declared protected tribes if they venture too deep into the Capitol. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Electrum's national animal is the Pig, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Whatever you want.

Electrum is ranked 89,452^nd in the world and 34^th in Rushmore for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 277.44 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.