The One Above All of Ardelburg is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by President Leonhart with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, barren, inhospitable landscape, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 1.771 billion Burgueses are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The relatively small, pro-business government prioritizes Industry, with Defense, Education, and Law & Order also on the agenda, while Spirituality receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saint Elysium. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 15.7%.

The frighteningly efficient ArdelBurg economy, worth 246 trillion Dollar Bourgueses a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 139,320 Dollar Bourgueses, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 570,645 per year while the poor average 22,488, a ratio of 25.4 to 1.

Open-casket funerals are avoided at all cost, the government is using tax revenues to provide jobs for the poor, where there's a will there is usually a password manager, and foreign spirits are hard to find due to an abundance of "Cletus and Jim Bob's Homemade ArdelBurg Moonshine". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Ardelburg's national animal is the Gallant Noble, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Bourgeois Elitist Catholicism.

Ardelburg is ranked 173,023^rd in the world and 148^th in The Sacred Elite for Highest Poor Incomes, with 22,488.46 Standard Monetary Units.