The Kingdom of New Arcellia is a very large, genial nation, notable for its national health service, enslaved workforce, and compulsory military service. The compassionate, cynical population of 303 million New Arcellians 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 medium-sized, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Selabain. The average income tax rate is 46.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient New Arcellian economy, worth 15.7 trillion marks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 51,804 marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

Women who walk into the ladies' changing room are accused of being Peeping Toms, turnstile jumpers grow up to be tax cheats, public incontinence is a growing problem amongst the nation's women, and apples shaped like baguettes have become a strange new food fad. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Arcellia's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Arcellia is ranked 177,150^th in the world and 916^th in the Plains of Perdition for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 128.88 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.