The Sovereign Republic of Aritzoska is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by David Plattix with a fair hand, and renowned for its prohibition of alcohol, national health service, and frequent executions. The compassionate, democratic population of 10.719 billion Zanosi enjoy great social freedoms and frequent elections, where the majority of the populace regularly votes to increase its benefits at the expense of various hapless minorities.

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lonolia. The average income tax rate is 96.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Zanos economy, worth a remarkable 1,709 trillion Ætherons 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 159,528 Ætherons, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Party has more splits than a yo-yo dieter's trousers, boys are shocked by the revolutionary lesson that women are actually human, the nation's leader is normally just referred to as "snuggle-wuggle-huggy-bear", and sports fans complain that cricket tests now last an unbearable ten days. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aritzoska's national animal is the Puffin, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Aritzoska is ranked 2,869^th in the world and 75^th in Europe for Nicest Citizens, with 60.64 average smiles per day.