The People's Republic of Ersmark is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Agata Bertilius with a fair hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, ban on automobiles, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.062 billion Ersmarkers hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hedvigstad. The average income tax rate is 91.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ersmarkian economy, worth 106 trillion Crowns a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 100,006 Crowns, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Mass shootings have become the new normal, the nation's generous tax credits have brought all the film studios to the yard, the government raises tariffs on a weekly basis, and grocery stores can be audibly identified by the giggling emerging from them. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ersmark's national animal is the Moose, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Frienhedommen.

Ersmark is ranked 4,758^th in the world and 7^th in Scandinavian Liberal Paradise for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 83.79 on the Kitten Softness Rating.