The Republic of Etriya is a massive, cultured nation, remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, complete lack of prisons, and frequent executions. The devout population of 2.978 billion Etriyans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Monata. The average income tax rate is 70.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Etriyan economy, worth 215 trillion Kroffs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is 72,426 Kroffs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The volume of paperwork used to complete a single environmental assessment defeats the purpose, the saying 'break a leg' is now taken literally, economic planning is exalted as a human art form, and guide dogs for the blind have been seen using government websites. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Etriya's national animal is the Mountain Deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Etriya is ranked 49,573^rd in the world and 1,074^th in the South Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 149.28 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.