The Republic of ARF Trooper 5 is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, smutty television, and suspicion of poets. The hard-working, cynical population of 1.47 billion ARF Trooper 5ians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 32.3%.

The ARF Trooper 5ian economy, worth 72.5 trillion Credits a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is 49,294 Credits, with the richest citizens earning 9.0 times as much as the poorest.

The nation's atlases tend to go out of date every few weeks, many parents are becoming frustrated with their children's choices in spouses, Leader has been seen stealthily slicing fifths off bread loaves, and loading sixteen tons of laundry gets you another year older and deeper in debt. Crime is moderate. ARF Trooper 5's national animal is the Droid, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

ARF Trooper 5 is ranked 273,746^th in the world and 9^th in Ameriupol for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -5.59 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.