The Empire of The Eternal Ascendancy is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Empress Natsuko Aokita with an iron fist, and renowned for its national health service, pith helmet sales, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 9.199 billion Eternalists are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt government prioritizes Defense, although Healthcare, Law & Order, and Education are also considered important, while Spirituality and International Aid are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Imperial City. The average income tax rate is 77.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Eternalist economy, worth a remarkable 1,231 trillion Eternal Credits a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 133,893 Eternal Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Military spending is on the increase, escaped birthday balloons are torpedoed out of the sky, cancer rates amongst the richest in society are inexplicably on the rise, and college students make ends meet by selling their kidneys. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Eternal Ascendancy's national animal is the phoenix, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

The Eternal Ascendancy is ranked 19,844^th in the world and 308^th in Europe for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 281.18 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.