The Republic of Arelplace is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Laddington McLad with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 16.034 billion Arelplaceans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bisulifan. The average income tax rate is 89.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Arelplacean economy, worth a remarkable 1,019 trillion pelves a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 63,564 pelves, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Statues of famous citizens are erected or demolished on a purely partisan basis, many friends and relatives of Laddington McLad have been given ambassador jobs in tropical island nations, white strait-jackets are the new orange jumpsuits, and advertisers scramble to sponsor the broadcast of Laddington McLad's most personal functions. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Arelplace's national animal is the Arctic crow, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Arelplace is ranked 11,577^th in the world and 272^nd in the South Pacific for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 1,665.7 on the Clooney Contribution Index.