The Grand Imperial Republic of Aarman is a mammoth, safe nation, ruled by Emperor Shane with an even hand, and renowned for its teetotalling pirates, museums and concert halls, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The compassionate population of 8.558 billion Aarmaneans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Shandria. The average income tax rate is 90.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Aarmanian economy, worth 869 trillion aureuses a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 101,635 aureuses, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Scientists are terrified of fabulous new breakthroughs, newspaper stories fill several pages with colorful adjectives, Aarman successfully hosted the The Union of Democratic States Olympics, and seven-year-olds debate for weeks on the merits of the Oxford comma. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aarman's national animal is the sheep, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Aarman is ranked 9,912^th in the world and 24^th in The Union of Democratic States for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 64.63 on the Kitten Softness Rating.