The Queendom of Saint Von Artemis is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its parental licensing program, public floggings, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 170 million Artemisians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 45.0%.

The very strong Saint Von Artemisian economy, worth 11.1 trillion Praisis a year, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Automobile Manufacturing, and Retail. Average income is 65,220 Praisis, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.

People are always able to look each other in the eye, male med students learning female anatomy do so with their eyes tightly closed, military spending recently hit a new high, and exorbitant spending on icebreakers breaks the ice at every budget meeting. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Saint Von Artemis's national animal is the Chartreux, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Saint Von Artemis is ranked 254,352^nd in the world and 1,297^th in Europe for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -34.75 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.