The Red Scythan Republic of Aran Prasad is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Vicefief Aran III with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, barren, inhospitable landscape, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 1.229 billion Aranians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Scorpia. The average income tax rate is 68.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Aran Prasadian economy, worth 173 trillion Arrows a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 141,335 Arrows, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Nuclear submarines have been deployed to protect the nation's banana supply, every week is blindness awareness week, human tissue is grown in vats as a delicacy as well as for transplants, and recent protests against birds flying too low have resulted in bloodshed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Aran Prasad's national animal is the German Shepherd, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Antiqueasism.

Aran Prasad is ranked 13,011^th in the world and 120^th in Europeia for Nicest Citizens, with 28.74 average smiles per day.