The Third Empire of Eritria is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by Prime Minister Panagiotis Palaiologos with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and otherworldly petting zoo. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 7.791 billion Eritrians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Neae Athenae. The average income tax rate is 97.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Eritrian economy, worth a remarkable 1,772 trillion Drachmaes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 227,562 Drachmaes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Activists sabotage clean energy in the name of the environment, a firework a day does not in fact keep the doctor away, Bigtopian relations have become a minefield, and rare steaks seem even bluer now. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Eritria's national animal is the Phoenix, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Eastern Orthodoxy.

Eritria is ranked 1,708^th in the world and 43^rd in the South Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 282 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.