The Head on a platter of Ernest Drake is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Id with an iron fist, and remarkable for its triple-decker prams, public floggings, and lack of airports. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 4.357 billion Hemogardians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mariiataria. The average income tax rate is 96.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Hemogardian economy, worth 754 trillion euros a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, extremely specialized black market in Basket Weaving. 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 impressive 173,199 euros, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Children get arrested for floating paper boats on lakes, children playing with walkie-talkies are told to 'get a job', the nationalistic national anthem inspires citizens to literally spit at foreigners, and chain-gangs are often seen toting barges and lifting bales. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Ernest Drake's national animal is the trench coat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Hubertism.

Ernest Drake is ranked 305,588^th in the world and 3^rd in Liars and Eristics for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -18.97 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.