The Loving Couple of -4rtFan- is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Darius with an iron fist, and remarkable for its strictly enforced bedtime, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 10.097 billion -4rtFan-ians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Boiling Isles. The average income tax rate is 75.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient -4rtFan-ian economy, worth 896 trillion snails a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is 88,796 snails, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

The nation has become a pariah for giving pirates letters of marque, a three-year-old has been selected to run the civil service, official government guidance encourages binge behaviors, and white chocolate is neither chocolate nor food. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. -4rtFan-'s national animal is the owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Cards.

-4rtFan- is ranked 33,357^th in the world and 10^th in Palatine for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 2,512.97 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.