The Protectorate of Ehrvan is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and irreverence towards religion. The cynical population of 870 million 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 82.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Ehrvanne economy, worth 74.2 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 significant contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Trout Farming. Average income is 85,243 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is interviewing for thousands of 'Religious Censor' positions, acknowledgement of minority groups is usually a Trojan horse, woodland critters flock to the safety of unfamiliar humans wearing lab-coats, and the nation is weighing the price of victory following a nuclear strike. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very 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 31,638^th in the world and 7^th in The Invaders for Most Extreme, scoring 37.26 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.