The Planetary reserve of Araminta Station is a mammoth, socially progressive nation, ruled by Konterin Veder with a fair hand, and notable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, national health service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 9.563 billion Aramints enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The large government prioritizes Education, although Administration, Industry, and Welfare are also considered important, while Defense and Spirituality receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Stroma. The average income tax rate is 66.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Araminty economy, worth a remarkable 1,042 trillion excuses a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 108,980 excuses, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Things are looking up for patients accidentally prescribed erectile dysfunction medication, the latest government policy passed by a close shave, confessions don't count if suffixed with "izzle", and human tissue is grown in vats as a delicacy as well as for transplants. Crime is totally unknown. Araminta Station's national animal is the bush baby, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Conservation.

Araminta Station is ranked 253,155^th in the world and 12^th in New Hyperion for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -7.21 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.