The Third Empire of Eritria is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Prime Minister Panagiotis Palaiologos with an even hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, avowedly heterosexual populace, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 8.203 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 98.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Eritrian economy, worth a remarkable 1,975 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 240,772 Drachmaes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The words 'private' and 'enterprise' must never appear in the same sentence, the meaning of life was recently discovered in the patch notes for Version 1.42, legislators work 24/7 due to an influx of single-issue bills, and 100-year-old politicians are now a thing of the past. 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 Orthodox Christianity.

Eritria is ranked 330,922^nd in the world and 4,248^th in the South Pacific for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 16.89 on the Bus Surprisal Index.