The Insurgency of Etrea is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by John Insurgent with an even hand, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 7.621 billion Etreans have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Station. The average income tax rate is 85.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Etrean economy, worth 827 trillion nationstates memecoins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Tourism. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 108,641 nationstates memecoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Nations that kill an Etrean can expect a strongly worded letter, traveller camps regularly block five-lane superhighways, the banshee wail foretells skies of death, and John Insurgent's Dreadnought-class tankbuster limousine is said to have more ammunition than the entire Brancalandian Army. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Etrea's national animal is the floating kitty, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Get me a damned Observer.

Etrea is ranked 316,521^st in the world and 45^th in MJT for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring -7.75 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.