The Vanished triangle of Arcove is a huge, socially progressive nation, renowned for its smutty television, keen interest in outer space, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 930 million arcovi are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of arcadia oaks. The average income tax rate is 67.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong arcovien economy, worth 57.4 trillion very edible credit cards a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 61,677 very edible credit cards, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Ratings for schools' curricula range from 'Pure as the Driven Snow' to 'Late Night TV', the right school tie opens more doors than the right qualification, political parties are banned from advertising and receiving private donations, and citizens know never to accept cookies from strangers. Crime is totally unknown. Arcove's national animal is the shadow mephit, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Arcove is ranked 74,414^th in the world and 85^th in Karma for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 2,471.01 on the Gilded Widget Scale.