The Loving Couple of ArtF4n- is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Boscha with an iron fist, and remarkable for its closed borders, enslaved workforce, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.878 billion ArtF4n-ians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hexside. The average income tax rate is 61.0%.

The frighteningly efficient ArtF4n-ian economy, worth 464 trillion snails a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Information Technology. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 95,238 snails, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

Coat closets are being re-branded as bedrooms, news headlines usually include p-values, high-income earners pay a 100% tax rate, and they say that ArtF4n-ians made a dessert and called it peace. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ArtF4n-'s national animal is the owl, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Cards.

ArtF4n- is ranked 35,604^th in the world and 1^st in Arcesia for Lowest Crime Rates, with 79.68 law-abiding acts per hour.