The Community of Aetherlia is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Arkhaemnon with an iron fist, and notable for its digital currency, feral children, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 3.333 billion Aetherlians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capitol. The average income tax rate is 96.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Aetherlian economy, worth 446 trillion pentacles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 134,103 pentacles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Intellectual snobbery has the cognoscenti sneering at anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the semiological drift of Umberto Eco's works, Occam's razor has sliced to pieces any childhood belief in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, the nation leads Bulwark Peninsula in per capita stalking, and every day has been a surprise since weather reporters turned to consulting ancient totems for their seven-day forecasts. Crime is totally unknown. Aetherlia's national animal is the snake, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Aetherlia is ranked 265,668^th in the world and 1^st in Bulwark Peninsula for Most Avoided, scoring 0.62 on the Kardashian Reflex Score.