The Virtualian Commonwealth of Aethyrcadia is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its prohibition of alcohol, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, devout population of 504 million Aethyrcadians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Spirituality, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sai Epionë. The average income tax rate is 78.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Aethyrcadian economy, worth 18.3 trillion Sequins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 36,243 Sequins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Children are raised bilingual from an early age, engineers preemptively order lawyers after every power cut, nude art is becoming wildly popular, and government ministers claim to ride dragons to work. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aethyrcadia's national animal is the Vixen, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Aethyrcadia is ranked 260,238^th in the world and 252^nd in Wintreath for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring -5.1 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.