The Holy Empire of Arkins is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by the Unicorn Wizard with an even hand, and renowned for its pith helmet sales, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 24.324 billion Arkolytes enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Environment, and Education. The average income tax rate is 96.0%.

The powerhouse Arkolyte economy, worth a remarkable 2,639 trillion ninjas a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 108,531 ninjas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Turning eighteen is often referred to as the 'Age of Aquarius', cogitators and mass debaters are skiving off work to hang around the National Symposium Park, airplanes have giant grilles on their noses to knock drones out of their path, and mechanics are often exhausted by their work. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Arkins's national animal is the hellhound, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Beeology.

Arkins is ranked 289,097^th in the world and 11,220^th in Lazarus for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -24.48 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.