The Empire of Arashiyama is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by The Bright Seo Yuria with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, anti-smoking policies, and triple-decker prams. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 7.226 billion Arashiyamen are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of つくば市 Tsukuba. The average income tax rate is 90.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Arashiyaman economy, worth 840 trillion Tsuris a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 116,366 Tsuris, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Bright Seo Yuria is strangely popular with male politicians' wives, email killed the radio star, hiding wrinkles with make-up is illegal, and foreign nations often blame poverty and terrorism on Arashiyaman selfishness. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Arashiyama's national animal is the Roomba, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Sumirism.

Arashiyama is ranked 226,080^th in the world and 107^th in The Everlasting Kawaii Empire for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -4.73 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.