The United Empire of Eritei is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Caezari Rose I with a fair hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 12.013 billion Eriteians 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 enormous government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Milan. The average income tax rate is 83.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Eriteian economy, worth a remarkable 1,171 trillion Hare Imperituses a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 97,557 Hare Imperituses, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Pareidolic SETI scientists swear there's a message from aliens hidden within pi, the wearing and manufacture of fur apparel is banned, hay has been added to school cafeteria menus, and military pistols are more secure than the national treasury. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Eritei's national animal is the Eturian Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Eritei is ranked 57,399^th in the world and 376^th in Europe for Most Patriotic, with 24.45 flags saluted per person per day.