The Republic of Etriya is a massive, cultured nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, complete lack of prisons, and stringent health and safety legislation. The devout population of 2.889 billion Etriyans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic, socially-minded 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 68.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Etriyan economy, worth 218 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 75,559 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 46,106^th in the world and 1,008^th in the South Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 4,660.38 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.