The People's Republic of Arastzotska is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Ivanka Durbin with an iron fist, and notable for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 8.338 billion Arastzotskans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Durminskiy. The average income tax rate is 69.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Arastzotskan economy, worth 198 trillion Arastzotskan Rubles 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 Tourism industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Cheese Exports, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 23,818 Arastzotskan Rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Ivanka Durbin is described as an everyday person with normal tastes and the usual interests, frequent fliers are obliged to submit to invasive security procedures by government security, a National Academy regulates grammar and usage, and it is against the rules of boxing to hit above or below the belt. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Arastzotska's national animal is the Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Atheism.

Arastzotska is ranked 275,964^th in the world and 444^th in The Betweenworlds for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 7,169.34 Standard Monetary Units.