The Arduan State of Induous is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Alexandre Beaumon with a fair hand, and remarkable for its national health service, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.304 billion Arduans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ardenis. The average income tax rate is 50.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Arduan economy, worth 147 trillion Indus a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 112,999 Indus, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is avowedly secular, nuclear warheads are frequently launched into space as a warning to invading meteoroids, feeling like a winner comes at a price, and pandemics are over and done with by the time it takes to pass the nation's stringent border security. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Induous's national animal is the Bandit Shark, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Rael Arduanism.

Induous is ranked 8,741^st in the world and 1^st in Kryndel for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 67.49 on the Kitten Softness Rating.