The Imperial Vicariate of Arleat is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its pith helmet sales, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 583 million Arleats love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nancy. The average income tax rate is 77.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Arlesian economy, worth 61.1 trillion Guilders a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 104,742 Guilders, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government seeks peaceful forum with terrorists, hiding wrinkles with make-up is illegal, the seats at the back of the parliament are reserved for indigenous ministers, and police officers often conceal their identities to safeguard against public complaints. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Arleat's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Arleat is ranked 9,015^th in the world and 200^th in The East Pacific for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 1,940.7 on the Clooney Contribution Index.