The Principality of Eitir is a large, cultured nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 160 million Eitirians 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 enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 67.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Eitirian economy, worth 1.17 trillion planets 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 mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 7,327 planets, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation wears its high incidence of chromosomal diseases as a badge of pride, conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings, public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers, and teachers are routinely tested to keep their jobs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Eitir's national animal is the Common Fae, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Eitir is ranked 140,739^th in the world and 171^st in Refugia for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 77.14 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.