The Dominion of Eridal is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its frequent executions, ban on automobiles, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 949 million Eridalians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Spirituality, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dol Rial. The average income tax rate is 82.3%.

The Eridalian economy, worth 53.6 trillion darials 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 led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Information Technology. Average income is 56,477 darials, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

Military equipment stores have a tendency to go up in flames, TV coverage of music festivals consists mostly of backstage interviews, theories that hold water are considered to have failed, and the government is financing an extremely costly war against malaria. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Eridal's national animal is the onyx-ringed serpent, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Eridal is ranked 38,476^th in the world and 28^th in Aesica for Largest Governments, scoring 24.76 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.