The Four Pillars of Eragon Island is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by President Arnold Stigerhammer with an iron fist, and renowned for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 8.656 billion Terrans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Umbra. The average income tax rate is 95.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Terran economy, worth a remarkable 1,940 trillion karrunes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Cheese Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 224,199 karrunes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A certain animated paperclip is enjoying his sunset years at the government's expense, the government is proudly free of crabs, aggravated apostrophe abusers are admonished and assaulted, and being impolite in public is punishable by heavy fines. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Eragon Island's national animal is the Astrobalen, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is the New Light.

Eragon Island is ranked 24,697^th in the world and 343^rd in the Pacific for Most Developed, scoring 85.1 on the Human Development Index.