The Holy Monastic Republic of The Archregimancy is a gargantuan, genial nation, remarkable for its fear of technology, anti-smoking policies, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 40.933 billion Monks are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The relatively small, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Greatest Lavra. The average income tax rate is 13.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Monastic economy, worth 137 trillion tithes a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 3,366 tithes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The men in trenchcoats hanging around playgrounds are actually police officers, the regional delicacy of chocolate bombes is deadlier than an unexploded bomb, the volume of paperwork used to complete a single environmental assessment defeats the purpose, and murderers with law degrees can be seen swinging the gavel in courts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Archregimancy's national animal is the lesser spotted aurochs, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Orthodox Christianity.

The Archregimancy is ranked 289,900^th in the world and 2^nd in The Dreamed Realm for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -29.31 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.