The Republic of Erowhonk is a very large, cultured nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 189 million Erowhonkians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 73.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Erowhonkian economy, worth 8.93 trillion pies a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 47,265 pies, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

School lockers are filled with fancy underwear, the Erowhonk Automotive Racing Series draws millions of spectators annually while those near the tracks complain about the noise, students are wary of colorfully decorated new teachers with names like Professor Pipsqueak, and UFO sightings are listed daily in the morning news. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Erowhonk's national animal is the Tortoise, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Erowhonk is ranked 256,779^th in the world and 138^th in Democratic Socialist Assembly for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.74 kickbacks per hour.