The Free Land of Arborrobra is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 940 million Arborrobrans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 79.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Arborrobran economy, worth 61.7 trillion Scales 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Uranium Mining, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 65,648 Scales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Election ballot papers are so long that unused ones are recycled as toilet roll, handling people's data is proving an immersive experience, a sudden shout of "surprise!" does not herald a party for teachers, and traveller camps regularly block five-lane superhighways. Crime is totally unknown. Arborrobra's national animal is the Albatross, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Arborrobra is ranked 274,957^th in the world and 4,966^th in the South Pacific for Most Patriotic, with 0.64 flags saluted per person per day.