The Confederacy of Arcturasia is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, public floggings, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 775 million Arcturasians are known throughout the region for their efficiency and work ethic, as well as their general suspicion of leisure.

The medium-sized, moralistic government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Spirituality, Law & Order, and Administration also on the agenda, while Welfare and Social Policy are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Arctura. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 24.0%.

The thriving Arcturasian economy, worth 74.3 trillion holy notes a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology. Average income is 95,902 holy notes, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 318,668 per year while the poor average 21,523, a ratio of 14.8 to 1.

The New Arcturasian Thesaurus lists "love" and "oppress" as synonyms, parents who fail mandatory parenting classes risk having their children taken away, supermodels maintain their skinny form by running away from government officials, and most people suffer from some form of hearing loss. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Arcturasia's national animal is the Bull, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Arcturasia is ranked 140,288^th in the world and 2^nd in The Arctic Region of the coldest life for Smartest Citizens, with 28 quips per hour.