The Republic of Aryndesta Talthew is a gargantuan, pleasant nation, renowned for its restrictive gun laws and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-working population of 10.477 billion Aryndesta Talthewians are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The relatively small, moralistic, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Welfare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 10.5%.

The strong Aryndesta Talthewian economy, worth 583 trillion rubles a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 55,664 rubles, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 296,963 per year while the poor average 5,483, a ratio of 54.2 to 1.

Crime is a problem, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Aryndesta Talthew's national animal is the porpoise.

Aryndesta Talthew is ranked 33,071^st in the world and 692^nd in the Rejected Realms for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 5,927.84 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.