The People's Republic of Eriztakia is a mid-sized, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its frequent executions, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate population of 67 million Eriztaks are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 56.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Eriztak economy, worth 1.41 trillion Drumas 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 Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Retail, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 21,102 Drumas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Future forecasters fearfully discuss grey goo and human obsolescence, feeling like a winner comes at a price, the government single-handedly sustains the bunk bed market, and children as young as twelve are conscripted into the armed forces. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Eriztakia's national animal is the Tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Eriztakia is ranked 77,681^st in the world and 481^st in Europeia for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 56.78 Effective Tax Rate.