The Prelature Papacy of Erasticanius is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Prelature Pope Dietrich I with an even hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, ban on automobiles, and smutty television. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 22.494 billion Erasticans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hoodoo Falls. The average income tax rate is 97.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Erasticaniusian economy, worth a remarkable 3,382 trillion Euros a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 150,357 Euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Scientists earn more grant money for reproducing old experiments than trying anything new, left-wing militias train children how to properly burn down banks, the needs of the living outweigh the needs of the dead, and teachers are dying as they attempt to read 500 word essays without pausing for breath. Crime is totally unknown. Erasticanius's national animal is the Giant Squid, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Virtual Roman Catholicism.

Erasticanius is ranked 315,663^rd in the world and 5^th in Vatican II for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring -19.39 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.