The Federated Directorate of Arathaea is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Prime Director Arathaea Alterion with a fair hand, and remarkable for its strictly enforced bedtime, free-roaming dinosaurs, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, democratic, cheerful population of 24.768 billion Arathaeans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal government prioritizes Education, with Defense, Environment, and Social Policy also on the agenda, while Spirituality receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Arathaea City. The average income tax rate is 97.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Arathaean economy, worth a remarkable 5,499 trillion araths a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 222,051 araths, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Advert breaks are played at lower volumes to make them easier to ignore, no one is quite sure what many government officials look like, the nation's navy has been named the scourge of the seven thousand seas, and citizens finish cleaning up after the annual National Treasure Hunt just in time for the next one. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Arathaea's national animal is the greater twin-tailed serval, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Arathaea is ranked 6,848^th in the world and 367^th in Osiris for Lowest Crime Rates, with 109.03 law-abiding acts per hour.