The Commonwealth of Arucaria is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by President James Reed with a fair hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, absence of drug laws, and spontaneously combusting cars. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 6.738 billion Arucarians live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The relatively small, liberal, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Welfare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Prime City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 16.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Arucarian economy, worth a remarkable 1,533 trillion credits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 227,534 credits, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 842,550 per year while the poor average 43,268, a ratio of 19.5 to 1.

Citizens are strongly encouraged to breathe less so as to limit the carbon footprint, open-casket funerals are avoided at all cost, Pinkerton agents are called in to forcibly break up white collar strikes, and wealthy pranksters dump refuse on unsuspecting citizens from up high. Crime is totally unknown. Arucaria's national animal is the eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Arucaria is ranked 6,041^st in the world and 165^th in The North Pacific for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 8,987.66 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.