The Queendom of Saint Von Artemis is a very large, orderly nation, renowned for its parental licensing program, enslaved workforce, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 100 million Artemisians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 37.0%.

The thriving Saint Von Artemisian economy, worth 7.18 trillion Praisis a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Automobile Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 71,809 Praisis, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 399,006 per year while the poor average 6,478, a ratio of 61.6 to 1.

Greenhouses are regularly raided by the police, thrift shops are closing their doors, reinventing the wheel is a favourite pastime of Saint Von Artemisian weapons designers, and children seem to be getting better at lying these days. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Saint Von Artemis's national animal is the Chartreux, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Saint Von Artemis is ranked 41,998^th in the world and 200^th in Europe for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 4,563.12 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.