The Federal Republic of Arboresia is a huge, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its daily referendums, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 917 million Arboresians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Luxen. The average income tax rate is 31.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Arboresian economy, worth 56.1 trillion Mackans a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 61,141 Mackans, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Foreign spirits are hard to find due to an abundance of "Cletus and Jim Bob's Homemade Arboresian Moonshine", cassocked priests and choirboys believe that what happens behind closed doors stays behind closed doors, prison visits increase substantially during election years, and Arboresia has designated Luxen as its capital city. Crime is totally unknown. Arboresia's national animal is the Caribou, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Arboresia is ranked 76,901^st in the world and 3,943^rd in Lazarus for Most Cultured, scoring 68 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.