The Republic of Etnon is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Peigi Åland with a fair hand, and renowned for its ban on automobiles, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 7.555 billion Etnonians 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Santana. The average income tax rate is 94.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Etnonian economy, worth 758 trillion Euros a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 100,456 Euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The horniness of the great-horned Bear is considered a national priority, an aboriginal talking stick is used for leaders' debates at election time, snap elections are called over every minor impasse, and guilt tripped foreigners heavily dictate child hunger in Etnon. Crime is totally unknown. Etnon's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Etnon is ranked 294^th in the world and 133^rd in Europe for Most Influential, scoring 234,195 on the Soft Power Disbursement Rating.