The Empire of Aigeus is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Princeps Omnium with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, anti-smoking policies, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.495 billion Aigeusians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Terra Aurea. The average income tax rate is 96.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Aigeusian economy, worth 664 trillion euros 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 Tourism, Retail, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 190,177 euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Helium balloons lift the nation's spacecraft towards the heavens, couples kissing on the street are detained for 'unlawful exchange of genetic material', onions have been banned due to their tendency to cause eye irritation, and farmers in arid regions are puzzled with government directions to plant rice this year. Crime is totally unknown. Aigeus's national animal is the jackass penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Atheism.

Aigeus is ranked 10,305^th in the world and 3^rd in Penguin Land for Most Cultured, scoring 113 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.