The People's Republic of Artotzkiya is a colossal, safe nation, remarkable for its parental licensing program, frequent executions, and stringent health and safety legislation. The devout population of 5.322 billion artotzkiyans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Anastasapol. The average income tax rate is 66.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish artotzkiyan economy, worth 157 trillion rubels a year, is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Tourism, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 29,512 rubels, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The phrase 'spreading like wildfire' is no longer in the public lexicon, Leader's used car is held together by bumper stickers that support the opposition, country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized, and graverobbers claim they're acting within the interest of 'scientific preservation'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Artotzkiya's national animal is the bear and its national religion is violetism.

Artotzkiya is ranked 194,297^th in the world and 6^th in Asterya for Most Corrupt Governments, with 1.59 kickbacks per hour.