The Republic of The Achericend is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by this guy I know with a fair hand, and remarkable for its pith helmet sales, keen interest in outer space, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.121 billion Achericendians 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 large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yrohpolis. The average income tax rate is 79.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Achericendian economy, worth 116 trillion Kronor a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Cheese Exports. Average income is an impressive 103,553 Kronor, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Burning yourself alive is not okay but starving and whipping yourself is fine, the Achericendian foreign aid program is quick to provide starving children with the latest video games, an online tea-bagging epidemic is getting worse and (meta)worse, and the government mails weekly updates on the new anti-junk mail laws to every citizen. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. The Achericend's national animal is the giraffe, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Achericend is ranked 11,938^th in the world and 340^th in the South Pacific for Most Beautiful Environments, with 1,427.16 pounds of wildlife per square mile.