The Borderlands of ARCADIAaa is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Aelion Valerius Dawn-Bringer Star-Weaver with an iron fist, and renowned for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 1.556 billion Peasants are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aether. The average income tax rate is 56.0%.

The strong Arcadian economy, worth 106 trillion Australian Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Trout Farming, Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Tourism. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 68,215 Australian Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

The new Refuse Hills housing development is under construction, witnesses have to run a gauntlet of mob enforcers to testify at trials, veterans are directed into environmental cleanup operations, and noble feuds don't end until one side gets their point across. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ARCADIAaa's national animal is the unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Strangeism.

ARCADIAaa is ranked 5,069^th in the world and 1^st in Arkadiia for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 11,454.24 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.