The State of Arnish is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and complete lack of prisons. The cynical population of 17.483 billion Arnishians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Douglas Heights. The average income tax rate is 68.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Arnishian economy, worth 239 trillion betales a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Pizza Delivery, Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 13,709 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Arnish has designated Douglas Heights as its capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Arnish's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Arnish is ranked 81,543^rd in the world and 3^rd in Nevada for Lowest Crime Rates, with 68.31 law-abiding acts per hour.