The Holy Empire of Argyatsova is a mammoth, safe nation, ruled by His Holiness Zaheer Gyatso II with an iron fist, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, frequent executions, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful, devout population of 8.249 billion Argyatsovans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Koraanga City. The average income tax rate is 89.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Argyatsovan economy, worth 627 trillion aloes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology. Average income is 76,115 aloes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Workers of "fairweather faith" claim six months of paid leave for holy days per year, making up random numbers to name new asteroids is the bulk of astronomers' work, 13-year-old internet trolls are treated as a threat on par with terrorists, and all new "spies" are fifteen-year-old acne-ridden kids on computers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Argyatsova's national animal is the snow lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Dalai'iastrianism.

Argyatsova is ranked 4,853^rd in the world and 48^th in Refugia for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 6,490.4 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.