The People's Republic of Arstotskam is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Zion Ormsby with an iron fist, and renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.3 billion Arstotskans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Paradizna. The average income tax rate is 60.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Arstotskan economy, worth 62.0 trillion Arstotskam Credits 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 Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. 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 47,706 Arstotskam Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

In musicals everybody's a little bit racist, songs in 4/4 time are simply too common for the musical cognoscenti, it is illegal to have the wrong clock time showing on your microwave oven, and male cubicle workers stand up every time a woman enters the room. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Arstotskam's national animal is the Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Arstotskam is ranked 148,380^th in the world and 1,884^th in the West Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 467.95 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.