The Republic of ARF Trooper 15 is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 1.315 billion ARF Trooper 15ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 29.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The ARF Trooper 15ian economy, worth 56.0 trillion Credits a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 42,615 Credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Many marriages go virtually unconsummated, the tax agency is feared more than serial killers and terrorists, the government invades its allies more than its enemies, and imitation is the sincerest form of felony. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ARF Trooper 15's national animal is the Droid, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

ARF Trooper 15 is ranked 164,128^th in the world and 2,125^th in eta for Most Developed, scoring 54.64 on the Human Development Index.