The Heroic Sacrifice of Artorias the Abysswalker is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Artorias with a fair hand, and renowned for its frequent executions, daily referendums, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 6.889 billion Artorias the Abysswalkerians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Abyss. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 23.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Artorias the Abysswalkerian economy, worth 716 trillion souls a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 104,071 souls, with the richest citizens earning 5.4 times as much as the poorest.

Euthanasia is illegal, government officials sit helplessly as they are labelled 'Pompous Womples' by celebrities, teenagers are told they're not thinking about sex enough, and many marriages go virtually unconsummated. Crime is totally unknown. Artorias the Abysswalker's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Violetism.

Artorias the Abysswalker is ranked 79,236^th in the world and 1^st in Abyss Watchers for Most Extreme, scoring 26.12 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.