The Kingdom of Arreton is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by King Aethelwulf with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 16.363 billion Arretonians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Downend. The average income tax rate is 73.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Arretonian economy, worth a remarkable 1,590 trillion vects a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 97,226 vects, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Teachers are routinely tested to keep their jobs, mystics are claiming that a simultaneous rise in scepticism and education budgets is correlation rather than causation, many junior high school teachers minor in midwifery, and the newest shade developed by Arreton's dye industry has been dubbed 'Agent Orange'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Arreton's national animal is the white lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is pagan.

Arreton is ranked 19,229^th in the world and 12^th in Vectis for Most Advanced Public Transport, scoring 2,322.87 on the Societal Mobility Rating.