The Holy Empire of Achkaerin is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Peter Azurewind with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and daily referendums. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 22.133 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 92.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Achkaerinian economy, worth a remarkable 2,157 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 97,478 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 11,902^nd in the world and 3^rd in Independent Order for Lowest Crime Rates, with 97.98 law-abiding acts per hour.