The Queendom of Saint Von Artemis is a very large, safe nation, renowned for its public floggings, fear of technology, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 118 million Artemisians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 38.0%.

The very strong Saint Von Artemisian economy, worth 8.10 trillion Praisis a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Automobile Manufacturing, and Retail. Average income is 68,620 Praisis, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 318,065 per year while the poor average 8,914, a ratio of 35.7 to 1.

Vanity is considered the fifth cardinal virtue, the military is plagued with unethical researchers, foreign musicians that Leader dislikes are turned away at the border, and there's no such thing as a safe bet. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Saint Von Artemis's national animal is the Chartreux, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Saint Von Artemis is ranked 263,499^th in the world and 1,321^st in Europe for Highest Food Quality, scoring 7.09 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.