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The Bardic Lorekeepers of Aethelia is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by JEM with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, complete lack of prisons, and infamous sell-swords. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 32.092 billion Aethelians 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, liberal, socially-minded government prioritizes Education, although Environment, Healthcare, and Social Policy are also considered important, while Spirituality and Defense receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Luna. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Aethelian economy, worth an astonishing 10,795 trillion newtons a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 336,405 newtons, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is avowedly secular, billions of newtons are spent to take high-quality photos of the Aurora Nebula, space research funding has hit a recent high while several military bases are being closed down, and sports fans complain that cricket tests now last an unbearable ten days. Crime is totally unknown. Aethelia's national animal is the aurora, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Lunarian.

Aethelia is ranked 331,662^nd in the world and 103^rd in Gay for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry, scoring -59.45 on the Tasmanian Pulp Environmental Export Index.