The Most Serene Republic of Archytas is a titanic, cultured nation, remarkable for its smutty television, compulsory military service, and unlimited-speed roads. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 20.274 billion Archytasians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 59.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Archytasian economy, worth a remarkable 5,073 trillion Good Deeds a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 250,268 Good Deeds, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 923,326 per year while the poor average 47,867, a ratio of 19.3 to 1.

The end of autumn is celebrated with a bonfire of designer bags, online weather reports are predicting five years of glorious sunshine for Archytas, celebrity foodies are biting a huge chunk out of the government budget, and kids looking for shark teeth have become ancient history. Crime is totally unknown. Archytas's national animal is the Pegasus, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Archytas is ranked 61,814^th in the world and 76^th in Karma for Highest Poor Incomes, with 47,867.89 Standard Monetary Units.