The Commonality of Arva Telan is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Rey Palandír Taimo with an even hand, and remarkable for its lack of airports, ritual sacrifices, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, devout population of 7.576 billion Telani are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kikoro. The average income tax rate is 59.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Arva Telanian economy, worth 748 trillion Gold Coins 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, highly specialized black market in Book Publishing and Tourism. 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 98,813 Gold Coins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

People talk about things being better when men were men, citizens wouldn't recognise Rey Palandír Taimo if they passed one another on the street, euthanasia is legal, and people think "siege mentality" is a positive trait. Crime is totally unknown. Arva Telan's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Runar.

Arva Telan is ranked 270,559^th in the world and 81^st in Thegye for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -52.07 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.