The Empire of Arteslansk is a huge, orderly nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The cynical population of 535 million Arteslanskians 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, socially-minded, well-organized government prioritizes Education, with Administration, Welfare, and Law & Order also on the agenda. The average income tax rate is 53.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Arteslanskian economy, worth 14.6 trillion Sapphire dezhen's 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 a slick, highly efficient black market in Basket Weaving, Uranium Mining, Cheese Exports, and Furniture Restoration. 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 27,301 Sapphire dezhen's, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Leader's webseries about the alleged hauntings of Arteslansk City generates millions of views, dog owners proudly declare that their pups can predict when the mailman will arrive, frat-house partying has become the national pastime, and money can't buy happiness but it can buy immunity to prosecution. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Arteslansk's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Arteslansk is ranked 267,753^rd in the world and 2,822^nd in The North Pacific for Largest Populations, with 535 million capita.