The Armed Republic of Neu Arbuckle is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by First Warden Edwards with an iron fist, and remarkable for its prohibition of alcohol, ban on automobiles, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 1.339 billion Arbuckles are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Davis. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 76.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Arbuckle economy, worth 239 trillion pis a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Beef-Based Agriculture, Trout Farming, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 178,991 pis, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 632,456 per year while the poor average 36,609, a ratio of 17.3 to 1.

The annual Adult Film Awards have a category for most titillating aftershave advert, a Fifth Empire Tourist Association survey has rated Neu Arbuckle #1 for number twos, cyber-crime and tin-foil hat sales are both increasing at record rates, and the bonfire of the old paper records can be seen for miles around Davis. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Neu Arbuckle's national animal is the Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Orthodox Christianity.

Neu Arbuckle is ranked 7,338^th in the world and 21^st in Fifth Empire for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 6,803.42 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.