The Kingdom of Ardeth Bay is a mammoth, safe nation, notable for its public floggings, pith helmet sales, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 8.589 billion Ardeth Bayians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Administration, and Education also on the agenda, while International Aid is ignored. The average income tax rate is 36.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Ardeth Bayian economy, worth 518 trillion egyptian dinars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 60,410 egyptian dinars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Sniffer dogs are trained to follow clouds of fruity-smelling vapor, foreign policy is mostly just to smile and hope for the best, military parades quietly tiptoe their way through the streets, and Ardeth Bay City's back alleys are rife with sausage eating. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ardeth Bay's national animal is the eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Ardeth Bay is ranked 88,865^th in the world and 758^th in Remembrance for Largest Populations, with 8.59 billion capita.