The Colony of Arelyk is a huge, socially progressive nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, compulsory military service, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, cynical population of 715 million Arelykians are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 68.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Arelykian economy, worth 47.0 trillion eCreds a year, is led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Tourism, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 65,700 eCreds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

All government facilities are built in the subterranean citadel of Arelyk City, court verdicts are predictable to within a hundredth of a percentage point, betting pennies on games of Go Fish is considered deviant, and legal contracts aren't worth the paper they're written on. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Arelyk's national animal is the ray, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Arelyk is ranked 98,082^nd in the world and 2^nd in Persim for Nudest, with 169.25 cheeks per square mile.