The Free Land of Armersia is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, hatred of cheese, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, humorless, devout population of 1.795 billion Armersians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt morass — juggles the competing demands of Administration, Healthcare, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 83.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Armersian economy, worth 104 trillion Geodes a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is mostly made up of the Basket Weaving industry. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 58,138 Geodes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Doctors ask for written consent before making eye contact with patients, the nation's reputation for treachery has left it sidelined on the international stage, children are strong-armed by police into eating their greens, and government contracted tax collectors often 'accidentally' over-charge citizens and skim the surplus. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Armersia's national animal is the Sky-Whisper, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Armersia is ranked 26,185^th in the world and 111^th in Concord for Nicest Citizens, with 20.98 average smiles per day.