The Holy Monastic Republic of The Archregimancy is a gargantuan, cultured nation, notable for its ban on automobiles, anti-smoking policies, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 46.123 billion Monks are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

The relatively small, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Greatest Lavra. The average income tax rate is 14.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Monastic economy, worth 156 trillion tithes a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 3,395 tithes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hay has been added to school cafeteria menus, contemporary art museums showcase the latest in centuries-old art, the government is giving peace a chance, and atheistic refugees haven't got a prayer of being granted asylum. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Archregimancy's national animal is the lesser spotted aurochs, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Orthodox Christianity.

The Archregimancy is ranked 292,436^th in the world and 2^nd in The Dreamed Realm for Largest Black Market, with 34.0 billion Standard Monetary Units.