The Principality of Etheriano is a colossal, socially progressive nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons, complete lack of public education, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 6.559 billion Etherianoans live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The minute, liberal, pro-business government, or what there is of one, is solely concerned with Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of West Highland. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.9%.

The strong Etherianoan economy, worth 624 trillion Gold Crowns a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and dominated by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Gambling, Soda Sales, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 95,190 Gold Crowns, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 419,883 per year while the poor average 13,523, a ratio of 31.0 to 1.

Giraffe is one of the most popular forenames in Etheriano, students are known to arrive at school in their pyjamas, discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is illegal, and police struggle to solve crimes due to the lack of fingerprint records. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Etheriano's national animal is the Giraffe, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Etheriano is ranked 101,521^st in the world and 725^th in the South Pacific for Largest Black Market, with 2.78 trillion Standard Monetary Units.