The Protectorate of Ehrvan is a massive, orderly nation, remarkable for its digital currency, frequent executions, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.344 billion Ehrvannen 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 juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 82.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Ehrvanne economy, worth 122 trillion marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Trout Farming. Average income is 90,831 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The saying "when pigs fly" has been changed to "when the lights work", universities spend millions cultivating ivy on their buildings, truncheon-mounted cameras record the beating of criminals in dynamic HD detail, and the government recently donated a surfboard to an impoverished family in a landlocked region. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ehrvan's national animal is the swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ehrvan is ranked 287,087^th in the world and 56^th in The Invaders for Largest Black Market, with 48.0 billion Standard Monetary Units.