The Origin of Ark Patrol is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Captain of the Dylia Jacob Mesterin with an iron fist, and renowned for its ritual sacrifices, frequent executions, and state-planned economy. The cynical, devout population of 2.175 billion Ark Patrolians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Spirituality, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fellsmarch. The average income tax rate is 67.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Ark Patrolian economy, worth 38.1 trillion Arks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. Average income is 17,528 Arks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Military pilots spend more time scraping feathers off their engines than flying their aircraft, they who do not work shall not eat, open-heart surgery is taught in seminaries, and the Federal Council of Ark Patrol has been announced as the new Head of State. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ark Patrol's national animal is the Ark, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Newspeak.

Ark Patrol is ranked 87,663^rd in the world and 15^th in NATO 2022 for Most Extreme, scoring 25.06 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.