The Swedish Protector of Ichu is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Yodle with an iron fist, and renowned for its ban on automobiles, compulsory vegetarianism, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 22.003 billion Ichuans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Law & Order, although Industry, Administration, and Defense are also considered important, while Education and Social Policy aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of NationStates. The average income tax rate is 99.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Ichuan economy, worth a remarkable 6,715 trillion Gold Coins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, highly specialized black market in Uranium Mining, Furniture Restoration, Woodchip Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 305,229 Gold Coins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Artists regularly face criminal charges and art-burning parties are common, it is illegal to make racist remarks in public, academics are questioning the quality of the nation's newly-reprinted science textbooks, and petitioners are increasingly resorting to climbing through Yodle's window to draw attention to their issues. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Ichu's national animal is the zombie, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Yodlism.

Ichu is ranked 328,487^th in the world and 10^th in Sweden for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -19.22 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.