The Swedish Protector of Ichu is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Yodle with an iron fist, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies, public floggings, and disturbing lack of elderly people. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 17.79 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 Industry, Administration, and Defense also on the agenda, while Education receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of NationStates. The average income tax rate is 99.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Ichuan economy, worth a remarkable 5,086 trillion Gold Coins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Furniture Restoration, Uranium Mining, 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. Average income is an amazing 285,911 Gold Coins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

The police have reaffirmed their tough stance on drugs, bug burgers are extra crunchy, meetings are often scheduled for "about four-ish" following complete conversion to sundials, and the once prosperous capital is in utter decline. 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 288,158^th in the world and 9^th in Sweden for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -9.67 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.