The Federation of Etherion Circadia is a very large, orderly nation, notable for its vat-grown people, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 164 million Circadians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 59.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Etherion Circadian economy, worth 7.24 trillion Cores a year, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Retail, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 44,123 Cores, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens try to pass off bottlecaps they found in their backyards as historical artifacts, the government decides its policies by observing the flight of birds, in life full of care there is no time to stop and stare, and a handful of megacorporations own every "craft brewery" in the nation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Etherion Circadia's national animal is the Butterfly.

Etherion Circadia is ranked 55,526^th in the world and 1,710^th in The North Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 72.89 law-abiding acts per hour.