The Republic of The Achericend is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by this guy I know with a fair hand, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, pith helmet sales, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.051 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 enormous, socially-minded 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 79.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Achericendian economy, worth 102 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 97,192 Kronor, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government has begun selling heroin and ecstasy to help fund its projects, even the nation's brussel sprouts are delicious and nutritious, the fire brigade often deal with cases of burnt toast, and fashion models are guaranteed to be 100% genuinely as anorexic as they appear on magazine covers. 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 8,693^rd in the world and 244^th in the South Pacific for Nicest Citizens, with 36.05 average smiles per day.