The Kingdom of Aethelis is a very large, safe nation, remarkable for its smutty television, compulsory military service, and suspicion of poets. The hard-working population of 435 million Aethelisians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 25.4%.

The thriving Aethelisian economy, worth 26.9 trillion Aurels a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Furniture Restoration industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Automobile Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is 61,950 Aurels, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 229,398 per year while the poor average 11,780, a ratio of 19.5 to 1.

Drug lords often avoid prison time by teaching "chemistry" classes to underprivileged youth, 50% of adverts on children's television are for clothes made of cotton wool, it's hunting season on loan sharks, and people who have had childhood imaginary friends are told they can't ever be trusted with guns. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aethelis's national animal is the Horse, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Aethelis is ranked 123,012^th in the world and 60^th in Der Leibwache for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 1,985.02 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.