The People's Republic of Arusuki is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Noburu Mendel with an iron fist, and notable for its ubiquitous missile silos, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 6.379 billion Arusukians 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 large, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sapporo. The average income tax rate is 78.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Arusukian economy, worth 668 trillion Baslas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 104,852 Baslas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

School lockers are filled with fancy underwear, the words 'private' and 'enterprise' must never appear in the same sentence, the government is promoting multicultural values with the new 'Just Be Nice, OK?' initiative, and old people living in plastic bubbles complain about a new type of social isolation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Arusuki's national animal is the Kitsune, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Arusuki is ranked 50,419^th in the world and 1^st in Arusuki for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 20,204.8 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.