The Dominion of Ercil is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Chief Minister Urien Houtman with an even hand, and renowned for its avowedly heterosexual populace, compulsory vegetarianism, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 18.064 billion Ercilians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zhia-Cia. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 89.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Ercilian economy, worth a remarkable 2,412 trillion Ingies a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 133,535 Ingies, with the richest citizens earning 5.6 times as much as the poorest.

Chief Minister Urien Houtman always arrives fashionably late and smelling of mushrooms, the silencing of dissent speaks volumes about the quality of Ercilian democracy, flowering peace lilies are the best defence against Ercil's military, and all music has been banned. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ercil's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ercil is ranked 25,603^rd in the world and 1^st in The New Kingdom for Lowest Crime Rates, with 85.53 law-abiding acts per hour.