The High Athelingric of Aritar is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by Asher Wiley with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, free-roaming dinosaurs, and frequent executions. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 9.326 billion Aritarians 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 Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Osearwynn. The average income tax rate is 83.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Aritarian economy, worth a remarkable 1,593 trillion pounds 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 large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. 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 an impressive 170,838 pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

The "feminist protest" defence is increasingly common for cases of armed robbery, trade policy consists of ganging up on the new guy, therapists can always squeeze in another house-call, and mechanics are often exhausted by their work. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aritar's national animal is the snow leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Adoptionism.

Aritar is ranked 64,643^rd in the world and 46^th in The Order of the Grey Wardens for Most Conservative, scoring 73.25 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.