The Third Empire of Eritria is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by Prime Minister Panagiotis Palaiologos with an even hand, and renowned for its smutty television, pith helmet sales, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 8.05 billion Eritrians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

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 97.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Eritrian economy, worth a remarkable 1,883 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 233,983 Drachmaes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Gift baskets often contain working nukes, national park visitors are reporting a rash of poison ivy sightings, therapists can always squeeze in another house-call, and replacement organs are grown in vats. 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 Christian Orthodoxy.

Eritria is ranked 2,152^nd in the world and 52^nd in the South Pacific for Most Developed, scoring 97.92 on the Human Development Index.