The Free Land of Arwin is a small, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its frequent executions, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 20 million Arwinians 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 enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 66.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The fragile Arwinian economy, worth 427 billion granas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Pizza Delivery industry, with major contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 21,391 granas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

One can wake up in Arwin and have breakfast in Bigtopia, pareidolic SETI scientists swear there's a message from aliens hidden within pi, airplane passengers have been known to stuff pillows in their jackets to get extra arm room, and newspaper stories fill several pages with colorful adjectives. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Arwin's national animal is the ant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Arwin is ranked 172,791^st in the world and 10^th in Holocene for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 144.87 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.