The Accordance to The Prophecy of Areson is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by Prophecy Interpreter Laythe with a fair hand, and renowned for its state-planned economy, zero percent divorce rate, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, democratic, humorless, devout population of 21.924 billion Aresonians enjoy great social freedoms and frequent elections, where the majority of the populace regularly votes to increase its benefits at the expense of various hapless minorities.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded, outspoken morass — prioritizes Law & Order, with Environment, Education, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Social Policy and Welfare are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Bunker. The average income tax rate is 82.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Aresonian economy, worth a remarkable 1,212 trillion Gravgens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Information Technology industry. Average income is 55,303 Gravgens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Soldiers' positions are given away by the glint of their bayonets, tens of thousands of Aresonians rock the night away at the annual SuperLob, Prophecy Interpreter Laythe's told that love often manifests itself through homicidal four-lettered litanies, and the military refers to helpless combatants offering surrender as "sitting ducks". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Areson's national animal is the Gravity Well, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Laytheism.

Areson is ranked 5,334^th in the world and 1^st in The Thonlands for Safest, scoring 127.87 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.