The Federated States of Archinos is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by James Alterlisburg with an even hand, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, prohibition of alcohol, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 17.023 billion Archinosians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of San Francis. The average income tax rate is 92.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Archinosian economy, worth a remarkable 1,952 trillion Arcs a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 114,720 Arcs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government has legalised small-scale capitalism, Archinos has one of the largest offshore wind farms in the world, the importance of winning Olympic gold medals is indoctrinated from an early age, and the best-of-the-best athletes have been replaced by the best-of-the-mediocre. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Archinos's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Secularism.

Archinos is ranked 279,718^th in the world and 3,522^nd in the West Pacific for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -11.4 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.