The Interstellar Union of Arkeyana is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Utopic Infostructure with a fair hand, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, national health service, and prohibition of alcohol. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 13.947 billion Arkeyanans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Atlantis Orbital. The average income tax rate is 98.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Arkeyanan economy, worth a remarkable 2,609 trillion Soundlings a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 187,109 Soundlings, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People stand their fridges back-to-front to benefit from the free heating, pre-takeoff checks last longer than the flights themselves, nature reserves often contain artificial waterfalls and concrete paths, and children's TV shows are having a gay old time. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Arkeyana's national animal is the Solar Flower, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Arkeyana is ranked 3,185^th in the world and 161^st in Osiris for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 3,394.24 on the Clooney Contribution Index.