The Commonwealth of Arucaria is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by President James Reed with a fair hand, and remarkable for its aversion to nipples, absence of drug laws, and spontaneously combusting cars. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 5.457 billion Arucarians enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The relatively small, liberal, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Welfare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Prime City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 27.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Arucarian economy, worth a remarkable 1,159 trillion credits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an amazing 212,466 credits, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,140,769 per year while the poor average 20,647, a ratio of 55.2 to 1.

The dwindling faithful in the nation make expensive pilgrimages to the remaining places of worship, one tree's worth of paperwork accompanies each imported log of timber, small towns have started burning historical buildings in hopes of attracting tourists, and elderly citizens regularly buy posh multimillion-credit mansions. Crime is totally unknown. Arucaria's national animal is the eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Arucaria is ranked 288,453^rd in the world and 6,226^th in The North Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -541.98 on the Scary Big Number Scale.