The Woodhouse Sanctum of The Sheik of Araby is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, smutty television, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, devout population of 26.195 billion Sheik of Arabyians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 55.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Sheik of Arabyian economy, worth a remarkable 1,442 trillion $$s a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient black market in Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 55,086 $$s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

The nation's once beautiful countryside has turned brown as farmers spray potent pesticides, an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents, the new airport at Mr. Giles' farm is panicking his sheep, and thousands of children die every day from easily curable illnesses. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Sheik of Araby's national animal is the swordfish, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

The Sheik of Araby is ranked 286,819^th in the world and 2^nd in Arabia for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -8 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.