The Holy Empire of Arkins is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by the Unicorn Wizard with an even hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, complete lack of prisons, and unlimited-speed roads. The compassionate population of 29.143 billion Arkolytes enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Environment, and Education. The average income tax rate is 95.8%.

The powerhouse Arkolyte economy, worth a remarkable 3,177 trillion ninjas a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 109,036 ninjas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Turning eighteen is often referred to as the 'Age of Aquarius', cogitators and mass debaters are skiving off work to hang around the National Symposium Park, airplanes have giant grilles on their noses to knock drones out of their path, and mechanics are often exhausted by their work. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Arkins's national animal is the hellhound, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Beeology.

Arkins is ranked 6,941^st in the world and 369^th in Lazarus for Most Cultured, scoring 132 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.