The Commonwealth of Eriksville is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Koning Erik with a fair hand, and remarkable for its unlimited-speed roads, national health service, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 15.861 billion Eriksvilleans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Blankevoort City. The average income tax rate is 78.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Eriksvillean economy, worth a remarkable 2,363 trillion Guilders a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 149,007 Guilders, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are allowed to rise or fall based on their own merits, back-alley holistic doctors carry crystals in long trench coats, political scientists despair as the national mascot election eclipses all others in voter enthusiasm, and cops with assault weaponry are forcing their way into private homes to search for terrorists. Crime is totally unknown. Eriksville's national animal is the beagle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Eriksville is ranked 21,581^st in the world and 533^rd in the Rejected Realms for Lowest Crime Rates, with 88.44 law-abiding acts per hour.