The Margraviate of Erzgebirge is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Johann Georg Markgraf von Meißen with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and daily referendums. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 11.684 billion Erzgebirger enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Freiberg. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 34.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Erzgebirgisch economy, worth a remarkable 1,272 trillion Marks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 108,920 Marks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 343,174 per year while the poor average 26,432, a ratio of 13.0 to 1.

Centuries-old marble buildings are being torn down and replaced with corrugated steel wind tunnels, you don't need a smoking gun to arrest someone for promoting guns, practising saying 'how now brown cow' is an essential part of holiday planning, and international humanitarian organisations are applauding the government for ending the death penalty. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Erzgebirge's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianity.

Erzgebirge is ranked 83,560^th in the world and 120^th in Thaecia for Lowest Crime Rates, with 68.02 law-abiding acts per hour.