The Principality of Etheriano is a massive, socially progressive nation, renowned for its unlimited-speed roads, smutty television, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 4.975 billion Etherianoans live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The minute, liberal, pro-business government, or what there is of one, is solely concerned with Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of West Highland. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 2.0%.

The strong Etherianoan economy, worth 474 trillion Gold Crowns a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and dominated by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Gambling, Soda Sales, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 95,396 Gold Crowns, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 468,116 per year while the poor average 11,126, a ratio of 42.1 to 1.

Airport security is provided by private companies, t-shirts displaying a photo of Leader performing the Full-Monty are selling out, things are looking up for sentient toilet bowls, and Etheriano's children are widely acknowledged as the most foul-mouthed in the region. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Etheriano's national animal is the Giraffe, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Etheriano is ranked 2,701^st in the world and 47^th in the South Pacific for Most Armed, with 15.07 weapons per person.