The Most Serene Commonwealth of Arbados Balarascia is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, pith helmet sales, and national health service. The compassionate, cynical population of 3.794 billion Arbado-Balarascians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Port Alsace. The average income tax rate is 61.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Arbado-Balarascian economy, worth 449 trillion Arbado-Balarascian Pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an impressive 118,409 Arbado-Balarascian Pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Wars of expansion are described as "peacekeeping operations", many marriages go virtually unconsummated, the government is reining in public spending, and reflection is vital for badly behaved politicians. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Arbados Balarascia's national animal is the Phoenix Hawk, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Arbados Balarascia is ranked 28,088^th in the world and 522^nd in The Communist Bloc for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 5,639.1 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.