The Imperial Conglomerate of Arkbergen is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Supreme Executive Director with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, barren, inhospitable landscape, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 21.893 billion Arkbergenians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Labyrinth. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Arkbergenian economy, worth a remarkable 8,029 trillion Credits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an amazing 366,780 Credits, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 3,098,181 per year while the poor average 8,029, a ratio of 385 to 1.

Commuters travel in zigzags to avoid stalking accusations, soldiers are "encouraged" to advance by armed officers behind them, group photos of the members of parliament are often mistaken for family reunions, and unemployed taxi drivers ironically use self-driving cabs to reach employment offices. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Arkbergen's national animal is the Black Owl, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Occult Cabal.

Arkbergen is ranked 14,158^th in the world and 3^rd in Sovereign Corporate League for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 8,430.75 on the Gilded Widget Scale.