The Commonality of Arva Telan is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Rey Palandír Taimo with an even hand, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, ban on automobiles, and compulsory military service. The compassionate, devout population of 7.515 billion Telani are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kikoro. The average income tax rate is 80.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Arva Telanian economy, worth 900 trillion Gold Coins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, highly specialized black market in Book Publishing and Tourism. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 119,883 Gold Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Out-of-work soldiers and bureaucrats can often be found camped out in front of manservant academies, referenda can be called for any law at the request of at least one third of the voting population, translators have been hired to deal with the varying regional accents during national political debates, and the treehouse in Lion Park is the tallest building in Arva Telan. Crime is totally unknown. Arva Telan's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Runar.

Arva Telan is ranked 30,096^th in the world and 9^th in Thegye for Most Corrupt Governments, with 72.04 kickbacks per hour.