The Nördliche Bundesländer of Arechias is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its parental licensing program, ubiquitous missile silos, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate population of 635 million Unionites enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rosenstadt. The average income tax rate is 70.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Unioner economy, worth 29.8 trillion Europäisches Gelds a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 46,882 Europäisches Gelds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Most of the military's funding goes into researching space-age weaponry, antique comic book collectors are disappointed to hear that their treasures are worth exactly as little as their mothers said they were, droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, and a proud mining community is considering a rebellion after the Capital officially renamed them 'District XII'. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Arechias's national animal is the Nördliche Union-Eule, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Arechias is ranked 258,623^rd in the world and 35^th in Union of Allied States for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 13,642.67 Standard Monetary Units.