The Alliance of Ethierys is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Admiral Marahiel with an iron fist, and remarkable for its smutty television, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 2.803 billion Ethierysians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Limsa Lominsa. The average income tax rate is 74.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Ethierysian economy, worth 250 trillion Gils a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 89,370 Gils, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

School uniforms are compulsory, immigrants are asked to leave their cultural traditions and pride at the border, the government has an entire department dedicated to staring at microscopes and writing down letters, and from the highest mountain to the deepest cave - one can always count on finding a good cell signal in Ethierys. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ethierys's national animal is the Starbird, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is The Twelve.

Ethierys is ranked 15,456^th in the world and 86^th in Refugia for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 9,108.44 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.