The Holy Empire of Arkins is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by the Unicorn Wizard with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and ubiquitous missile silos. The compassionate population of 29.023 billion Arkolytes have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Environment, and Education. The average income tax rate is 95.7%.

The powerhouse Arkolyte economy, worth a remarkable 3,148 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 108,472 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 304,025^th in the world and 11,861^st in Lazarus for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.46 kickbacks per hour.