The Endless Empire of Ermarian is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Empress Prazac XII with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and public floggings. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 30.4 billion Ermarianese love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous government prioritizes Education, with Environment, Welfare, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Spirituality isn't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dawn. The average income tax rate is 97.1%.

The all-consuming Ermarianese economy, worth a remarkable 4,529 trillion imperials a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Tourism. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 149,003 imperials, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Graverobbers claim they're acting within the interest of 'scientific preservation', families waiting for delayed pipe installations hope daily for rain, the WhoTube comments section has gone strangely quiet, and the World Endless Empire Games have been won again by Ermarian as no other country cares enough to compete. 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 170,348^th in the world and 8,775^th in The North Pacific for Largest Mining Sector, scoring -33.7 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.