The Armed Republic of Aribama is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Mr Prez with a fair hand, and renowned for its pith helmet sales, frequent executions, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 1.012 billion Aribamen have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Omi. The average income tax rate is 57.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Aribaman economy, worth 122 trillion Aribama Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 120,972 Aribama Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Billions of Aribama Dollars are being poured into a space program, scientists recently cloned the long-extinct feather-bellied American Black Bear, defense lawyers suggestively note to juries how flagrantly happy victims were, and arthritic surgeons with tremulous fingers reassure patients that they are in safe hands. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aribama's national animal is the American Black Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Aribama is ranked 230,747^th in the world and 11,191^st in the South Pacific for Lowest Overall Tax Burden, scoring -16.27 on the Hayek Index.