The Municipality of Araripina is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its closed borders, state-planned economy, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 1.556 billion Araripinans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 74.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Araripinan economy, worth 78.9 trillion yen a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Woodchip Exports, and Book Publishing. Average income is 50,686 yen, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Builders across Araripina are blocked up with orders for new public loos, new urban roads are threatening city parks, all guns must be registered, and sex changes are routinely performed at Araripina's hospitals. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Araripina's national animal is the dragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Araripina is ranked 53,378^th in the world and 8^th in League of States for Highest Food Quality, scoring 32.37 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.