The Empire of Arkarthus is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Emperor Jasag with an iron fist, and renowned for its national health service, pith helmet sales, and public floggings. The compassionate, cynical population of 7.573 billion Arkarthans 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, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Arkarth. The average income tax rate is 90.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Arkarthan economy, worth 749 trillion Credits a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 98,957 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Arkarthus isn't what it used to be, meat prices are soaring as the farming industry struggle under government-imposed restrictions, neighbourhood gossips whip up controversy about those receiving adult merchandise, and there's more than one way to skin a diplomat. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Arkarthus's national animal is the Pheonixhawk, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Arkarthus is ranked 12,475^th in the world and 871^st in Lazarus for Lowest Crime Rates, with 97.19 law-abiding acts per hour.