The Federation of Archshaven is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by President Simari Marcel with a fair hand, and remarkable for its frequent executions, state-planned economy, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.913 billion Archshavenians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aurelion Bay. The average income tax rate is 42.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Archshavenian economy, worth 225 trillion Shafens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 117,651 Shafens, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government loves seeing the little people fight, frightened witnesses and seriously ill jurors wear the same handcuffs as the defendant, property values in suburbs have nosedived after the middle class were forced to live next door to ethnic minorities, and babysitters are a thing of the past. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Archshaven's national animal is the Sea Turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Total Seperation.

Archshaven is ranked 83,538^th in the world and 179^th in The UMNS for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 3,463.61 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.