The Island of Arnelle is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Fangorn Slate with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, frequent executions, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 1.993 billion Arnelleans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized 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 54.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Arnellean economy, worth 227 trillion Elles a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 114,160 Elles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

On-call doctors who check their pagers during movies are banned from cinemas for life, pop stars who make it big overseas are hailed as economic heroes, Loud Patriotic Music Day has been ranked the seventh best new holiday of the year, and the nation faces constant invasions by foreign boy bands. 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 206,374^th in the world and 702^nd in the Plains of Perdition for Largest Black Market, with 440 billion Standard Monetary Units.