The Artist of Art Landia is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Oliver Marlove with an iron fist, and remarkable for its frequent executions, enslaved workforce, and feral children. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 2.852 billion Arts are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The minute, corrupt, well-organized government, or what there is of one, is effectively ruled by the Department of Industry, with Social Policy and Defense not funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rumbla Place. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Art Landian economy, worth 231 trillion Colors a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Pizza Delivery industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Cheese Exports, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 81,245 Colors, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 451,438 per year while the poor average 7,329, a ratio of 61.6 to 1.

University graduates and new home-owners toil in labour camps to work off their debts, people feel the most alone when among peers, the nation's historic treasures have been sold off to Maxtopia's "Museum of Art Landian Artifacts That They're Too Stupid to Appreciate", and homes without staircases are considered a step up in luxury. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Art Landia's national animal is the Cow, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Creatoranity | Flemgovian.

Art Landia is ranked 235,409^th in the world and 3,624^th in The North Pacific for Fattest Citizens, with 8.09 Obesity Rate.