The Armed Republic of Ark Land is a small, pleasant nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 36 million Arktics are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The tiny government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.0%.

The strong Ark Landian economy, worth 2.10 trillion Ark Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Pizza Delivery, and Retail. Average income is 58,312 Ark Dollars, with the richest citizens earning 8.3 times as much as the poorest.

The typical murderer weighs 150kg and has hairy arms, inheritance tax has recently been abolished, corporations claim the third ounce of any metal traded in a wicker-cone on the Sunday of a full moon as a charitable expense, and back-alley circumcision clinics are popping up all over the nation. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low. Ark Land's national animal is the Lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Ark Land is ranked 253,372^nd in the world and 238^th in Wintreath for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.75 kickbacks per hour.