Erewhon is a fictional star nation that appears in David Weber's Honor Harrington series of novels. David Weber is an American science fiction and fantasy author. ... Honor Harrington is a fictional character, the eponymous heroine of a series of books set in the Honorverse, written by David Weber and published by Baen Books. ...

Located near Solarian League space, Erewhon was founded by a group of criminal organizations and mafia families which became the social elite of the new world. While formally a republic, Erewhon is controlled by a group of powerful families which takes all the decisions, using the official Erewhonese government as a facade. The Republic's capital is the city of Maytag. The Solarian League is a fictional star nation in the Honorverse. ...

Erewhon has a reputation of being a seedy and dangerous place to be, with an especially active criminal underworld. However, the Erewhonese are honorable people, operating on a developed version of the thieves' code of honor.

Erewhon's prosperity has been boosted by the existence of the Erewhon Wormhole Junction, which attracts trade from and to the Solarian League. Even though the Erewhon Junction is small compared with the Manticore Junction, the Erewhonese have become commercial rivals of the Star Kingdom of Manticore. The Star Kingdom of Manticore, also known as Manticore and abbreviated as SKM, is a fictional human star-nation in the Honorverse, the setting for a series of books written by David Weber and published by Baen Books. ...

Notable tourist attractions of Erewhon are the city of Maytag itself, the Suds Emporium (considered to be the place where the real decision-makers agree on policy) and the orbiting space station known as The Wages of Sin.

The Solarian League has long courted Erewhon in an attempt to bring it (and its Junction) into the League. However, the Erewhon Republic has constantly declined such offers, preferring to rely upon the Manticoran Alliance to protect itself from the People's Republic of Haven rather than place its security in the hands of the League's non-existant foreign and military policies. The Peoples Republic of Haven is a fictional star nation in the Honorverse. ...

Erewhon fought alongside Manticore and Grayson against the People's Republic during the First Haven-Manticore War. However, the actions of the Baron High Ridge administration after the war alienated Erewhon's ruling families, leading to Erewhon's breakaway from the Manticoran Alliance and its siding with the restored Republic of Haven shortly before the resumption of hostilities. Erewhon's defection to the Havenites was nothing short of a disaster for the Star Kingdom, since the Erewhon Navy was one of the largest of the Alliance, and had received substantial technology transfers from Manticore. The planet Grayson is a fictional human star-nation in the Honorverse, the setting for a series of books written by David Weber and published by Baen Books. ...

The events prior to Erewhon's breakaway from Manticore are detailed in Crown of Slaves while the actual siding with Haven is mentioned in War of Honor Crown of Slaves, published in 2003, is a novel set in the Honorverse; it has been billed as the first in the Wages of Sin series, spun-off from the main Honor Harrington series. ... War of Honor is David Webers tenth Honor Harrington novel. ...