The Republic of Arliz1 is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, zero percent divorce rate, and public floggings. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 1.189 billion Arliz1ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 67.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Arliz1ian economy, worth 131 trillion arils a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 110,499 arils, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 313,238 per year while the poor average 31,152, a ratio of 10.1 to 1.

Medical experts advise that those claiming to be medical experts are probably fraudsters, Leader can often be seen hanging around playgrounds chatting with the kids, liberals and conservatives try to disqualify each other's candidates on the grounds that "their ideas would never work in the real world", and pharmaceutical companies emphatically promise that "your pills are in the mail" rather than admit any supply shortfall. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Arliz1's national animal is the rainbow jay, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Arliz1 is ranked 289,060^th in the world and 16^th in Card Gardens for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -9.7 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.