The United States of South Arcadia is a large, safe nation, notable for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 62 million South Arcadians 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 medium-sized, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 38.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish South Arcadian economy, worth 1.84 trillion Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Tourism, Pizza Delivery, Cheese Exports, and Retail. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 29,667 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Modern readers say a story is worthless without hyperlinked footnotes and editable wiki format, environmental officials dismiss uncontrolled wildfires burning down major cities as nature taking its course, there's an aura of pseudoscience around academia, and there's no cure or sympathy for the common cold. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. South Arcadia's national animal is the Wild Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

South Arcadia is ranked 125,533^rd in the world and 37^th in Realm of the Whispering Winds for Lowest Crime Rates, with 63.17 law-abiding acts per hour.