The Neostoic Republic of Ethica Politicae is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 20.747 billion Ethica Politicaeans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 66.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Ethica Politicaean economy, worth 440 trillion lire 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 slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, Book Publishing, and Automobile Manufacturing. 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 21,225 lire, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ethica Politicae's national animal is the petrel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ethica Politicae is ranked 116,118^th in the world and 4^th in Green Isles for Most Primitive, scoring -31.62 on the Scary Big Number Scale.