The Fiefdom of Artarinti is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, compulsory vegetarianism, and lack of airports. The compassionate, hard-working population of 1.383 billion Artarintians enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — prioritizes Education, although Administration, Healthcare, and Law & Order are also considered important, while Spirituality and Defense are ignored. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 90.4%.

The very strong Artarintian economy, worth 92.3 trillion Futures a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology. Average income is 66,709 Futures, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 336,187 per year while the poor average 7,384, a ratio of 45.5 to 1.

The sound of wooden legs echo throughout Artarinti after the recent introduction of the Foot Tax, five-year-olds who refuse to line up on command get gold stars, the staffroom being an "icky" colour is a perfectly acceptable reason to not accept a job, and hospitals are amongst the best-funded in the region. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Artarinti's national animal is the Snake, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Artarinti is ranked 315,215^th in the world and 131^st in RPS for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 21.55 on the Bus Surprisal Index.