The Lilac Fields of Arcoal is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its ritual sacrifices, compulsory military service, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed population of 7.802 billion Arcoalians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 33.0%.

The large but inefficient Arcoalian economy, worth 285 trillion marks a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Retail, Cheese Exports, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 36,534 marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

The banhammer is a standard police sidearm, copies of the constitution are used as toilet paper, Max Barry is this year's Miss Arcoal, and many say faith is a crutch for those who can't move forward. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Arcoal's national animal is the panther, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Arcoal is ranked 118,782^nd in the world and 5^th in Violetia for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 673.01 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.