The Loving Couple of -Art F4n- is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Nevareth with an even hand, and renowned for its strictly enforced bedtime, enslaved workforce, and anti-smoking policies. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 10.074 billion -Art F4n-ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bonesborough. The average income tax rate is 75.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient -Art F4n-ian economy, worth 966 trillion snails a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Retail. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 95,988 snails, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Chickens frolic freely on swings and roundabouts in Bonesborough's playgrounds, truck drivers turn their engines off and coast whenever they're going downhill, adverts depict men giving birth while cursing the women who got them into trouble, and there's a mortuary next to every -Art F4n-ian restaurant. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. -Art F4n-'s national animal is the owl, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Cards.

-Art F4n- is ranked 69,083^rd in the world and 1^st in Freehold of the Wolves for Highest Average Incomes, with 95,988.42 Standard Monetary Units.