The United States of Erwo Stal is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Perseus with a fair hand, and remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 13.934 billion Erwo Stalians 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 Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Atlanta. The average income tax rate is 99.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Erwo Stalian economy, worth a remarkable 3,027 trillion Dollars a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 217,240 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Perseus reduces citizens' commute times by giving away their homes, biotech companies are fined if their jumbled genetic sequences look too familiar, court verdicts are predictable to within a hundredth of a percentage point, and corporate lawyers are switching careers to the more lucrative field of green politics. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Erwo Stal's national animal is the Bald Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Eagleism.

Erwo Stal is ranked 290,407^th in the world and 6,319^th in The North Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -665.65 on the Scary Big Number Scale.