The Republic of Art Wellspringia is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ritual sacrifices, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, hard-working, devout population of 2.12 billion Art Landians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 42.5%.

The Art Wellspringian economy, worth 83.6 trillion Colors a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Automobile Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 39,422 Colors, with the richest citizens earning 5.3 times as much as the poorest.

Funding for education has been redirected into the military, Tom and Jerry cartoons have cat and mouse resolving their problems with reasoned discussion, the fattest folk in Art Wellspringia look to be the happiest ones, and APCs on school runs disgorge kids via assault ramps. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Art Wellspringia's national animal is the Butterfly, which can occasionally be seen dodging aircraft in the nation's cities.

Art Wellspringia is ranked 286,875^th in the world and 157^th in The Wellspring for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -35 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.