The Divine Retribution of Archangel Ambis is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, smutty television, and avant-garde cinema. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 783 million Arches are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Gates of Heaven. The average income tax rate is 32.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Archambisian economy, worth 33.9 trillion Radiant Coins a year, is led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Arms Manufacturing, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 43,308 Radiant Coins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

The nation's "surprisingly chill" military is renowned for its horrendous war crimes, the people are famous throughout the region for their perfect yellow teeth, Leader has been self-declared as the Most Supreme Magnificent Overlord of Everything You Ever Saw, and Calvinball training often involves digging escape tunnels. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Archangel Ambis's national animal is the Black Dove, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Archangel Ambis is ranked 146,092^nd in the world and 173^rd in The Brotherhood of Malice for Lowest Crime Rates, with 61.35 law-abiding acts per hour.