The ArchEmperacy of Areutia is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by The ArchEmperor with an iron fist, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, flagrant waste-dumping, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.08 billion Arutians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The tiny, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kalitar. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Arutian economy, worth a remarkable 1,695 trillion Crowns a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an amazing 278,894 Crowns, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,019,272 per year while the poor average 12,210, a ratio of 165 to 1.

In musicals everybody's a little bit racist, typing The ArchEmperor's name into a search engine always gives zero matches, children are often punished for the sins of the fathers, and a valid legal defense is 'dead men tell no tales'. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Areutia's national animal is the Easter Bunny, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Christianity.

Areutia is ranked 73,053^rd in the world and 209^th in the Outback for Most Developed, scoring 69.51 on the Human Development Index.