The Island of Arnelle is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Fangorn Slate with a fair hand, and notable for its daily referendums, pith helmet sales, and frequent executions. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 2.089 billion Arnelleans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ellestrough. The average income tax rate is 62.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Arnellean economy, worth 242 trillion Elles a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Trout Farming, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 115,934 Elles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's holy places are littered with doughnut crumbs, libraries are now installed with jacuzzis and mini-bars, the government is avowedly secular, and public loudspeakers constantly tell citizens they are "happy people". Crime is totally unknown. Arnelle's national animal is the Elleger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Norse.

Arnelle is ranked 201,445^th in the world and 952^nd in the Plains of Perdition for Least Corrupt Governments, with 92.64 percentage of bribes refused.