The Island of Arnelle is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Fangorn Slate with a fair hand, and notable for its keen interest in outer space, absence of drug laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 2.126 billion Arnelleans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ellestrough. The average income tax rate is 66.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Arnellean economy, worth 250 trillion Elles a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Trout Farming, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 117,490 Elles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People transfer their assets to bank accounts in Manamana before getting divorced, kids are arrested at gunpoint for playing with toy rifles, seasonal hay-fever sufferers are attending government drug counselling sessions to get free doughnuts, and 10-year-olds who struggle with integrating by parts are considered slow learners. Crime is totally unknown. Arnelle's national animal is the Elleger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Norse.

Arnelle is ranked 21,289^th in the world and 86^th in the Plains of Perdition for Smartest Citizens, with 66.42 quips per hour.