The Confederacy of Ethissos is a huge, efficient nation, ruled by Ligua with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, enslaved workforce, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 938 million Ethissosians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Welthoss. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 38.8%.

The all-consuming Ethissosian economy, worth 106 trillion Florens 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 slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. 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 impressive 113,199 Florens, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 476,290 per year while the poor average 17,458, a ratio of 27.3 to 1.

Morale within the seismologist community has hit rock bottom, royalist is the most offensive slur in the Ethissosian language, preschools put children down for naps with milk, cookies, and a gruesome story of vengeance, and political debates are all but a distant memory. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ethissos's national animal is the Falcon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Ethissos is ranked 283,128^th in the world and 24^th in The waters for Least Corrupt Governments, with 85.5 percentage of bribes refused.