The Dominion of Eritis is a huge, safe nation, ruled by Fish Walker with a fair hand, and renowned for its compulsory military service, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 978 million Eritisians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Atidae. The average income tax rate is 38.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Eritisian economy, worth 71.4 trillion taels a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Book Publishing, and Tourism. Average income is 73,001 taels, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It can be a real jungle in a modern courtroom, cotton candy made from genuine cotton cellulose doesn't quite satisfy, school lunches are made with hypo-allergenic wood pulp, and Fish Walker has just been declared ruler of Eritis in an international press conference. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Eritis's national animal is the axolotl, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Eritis is ranked 22,553^rd in the world and 667^th in the South Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 217.26 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.