The Futurist Golden Dragon State of Arante is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Holy Leader with an even hand, and notable for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 5.314 billion Aranteans are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Arante City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 27.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Arantean economy, worth a remarkable 1,012 trillion bitcoins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Tourism. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 190,508 bitcoins, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,121,920 per year while the poor average 15,038, a ratio of 74.6 to 1.

Distrust of taps has many people bathing only with bottled mineral water, the annual Adult Film Awards have a category for most titillating aftershave advert, losing your sock key may require surgical intervention, and exports are stamped with "made by the invisible hand you commies". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Arante's national animal is the golden Dragon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is The Dragon Path of Eternal Wisdom.

Arante is ranked 317,848^th in the world and 451^st in Federation Of Sovereign States for Least Corrupt Governments, with 42.97 percentage of bribes refused.