The Queendom of Saint Von Artemis is a large, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its parental licensing program, fear of technology, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 62 million Artemisians 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 Defense, Law & Order, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 41.5%.

The strong Saint Von Artemisian economy, worth 3.88 trillion Praisis a year, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 62,634 Praisis, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 183,783 per year while the poor average 16,827, a ratio of 10.9 to 1.

Citizens are allowed to rise or fall based on their own merits, the strong are acquitted and the weak are trampled in trial by a Chartreux, the "feminist protest" defence is increasingly common for cases of armed robbery, and the national colors help to make everyone look slimmer. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Saint Von Artemis's national animal is the Chartreux, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Saint Von Artemis is ranked 103,979^th in the world and 523^rd in Europe for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 1,981.1 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.