The Holy Empire of Achkaerin is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Peter Azurewind with an even hand, and remarkable for its hatred of cheese, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 22.199 billion Achkaerinese are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Valtheim. The average income tax rate is 92.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Achkaerinian economy, worth a remarkable 2,166 trillion Isos a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 97,596 Isos, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Evasive politicians don't fail to strongly commit to not committing to a course of non-inaction, kindergarten teachers with ankle-bracelets are closely supervised by their parole officers, dog owners proudly declare that their pups can predict when the mailman will arrive, and nobody looks each other in the eye at neighborhood block parties any more. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Achkaerin's national animal is the Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Cult of Namis.

Achkaerin is ranked 4,297^th in the world and 2^nd in Independent Order for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 15,983.67 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.