The Fallen Empire of The Erased is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 12.448 billion Erased are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Capital. The average income tax rate is 92.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Erased economy, worth a remarkable 2,204 trillion Zeros a year, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 177,114 Zeros, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Kids looking for shark teeth have become ancient history, business is adjusting to new gender equality policies in the workplace, nobody is allowed to stop the local daycare from reading Nietzsche to pre-schoolers, and genetic research is facing major headwinds. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Erased's national animal is the NULL, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is NA.

The Erased is ranked 209,775^th in the world and 11,430^th in Balder for Largest Black Market, with 416 billion Standard Monetary Units.