The Endless Empire of Ermarian is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Empress Prazac XII with a fair hand, and notable for its anti-smoking policies, frequent executions, and digital currency. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 31.054 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 receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dawn. The average income tax rate is 97.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Ermarianese economy, worth a remarkable 4,682 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 150,787 imperials, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Vital intelligence-gathering activities are put on hold as agents return home for seduction training and advanced poker instruction, foreign investment has dropped to a trickle after laws were passed preventing investors from taking their earnings abroad, no one born in Ermarian can fix a leaky faucet, and interest in globalism never flags. 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 11,968^th in the world and 698^th in The North Pacific for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 56.7 on the Kitten Softness Rating.