The Constitutional Monarchy of Aaraetar is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Queen Saerom I with an even hand, and notable for its state-planned economy, frequent executions, and daily referendums. The compassionate population of 1.217 billion Aaraetarians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sceptria. The average income tax rate is 55.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Aaraetarian economy, worth 36.4 trillion areuros 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 Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 29,934 areuros, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Slow dancing is made trickier when Auntie Edna insists on standing between the couple's arms, newborns are being raised as mindless killing machines, community theaters are known for their bawdy renditions of 'Springtime for Queen Saerom I', and government officials stay up all night in flame wars with their constituents. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aaraetar's national animal is the penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Aaraetar is ranked 53,986^th in the world and 2,936^th in Lazarus for Most Cultured, scoring 71 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.