The Principality of Eitir is a large, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 123 million Eitirians 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 large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 67.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The basket case Eitirian economy, worth 903 billion planets 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 mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 7,346 planets, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The cruise missile launchers on the field hospital roof are purely deterrent in purpose, a well-funded social safety net protects the unfortunate, same-sex marriages are increasingly common, and voting is voluntary. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Eitir's national animal is the Common Fae, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Eitir is ranked 77,673^rd in the world and 164^th in Refugia for Most Cultured, scoring 68 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.