The Holy Empire of ECHSR is a fledgling, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, irreverence towards religion, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 6 million peoples have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The tiny government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 8.6%.

The ECHSRian economy, worth 312 billion rupees a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Furniture Restoration industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Retail, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 52,016 rupees, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.

Saying "don't do anything that Leader wouldn't do" doesn't exclude a great deal, asthmatics can now suffer the effects of polluting chimneys from further away than ever before, weather forecasts regularly cover meteor showers, and the government extracts trade concessions from poor nations in exchange for humanitarian aid. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control. ECHSR's national animal is the chicken, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

ECHSR is ranked 262,573^rd in the world and 102^nd in The Pacifica for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring -8 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.