The Confederacy of Arlya is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Father with an even hand, and remarkable for its soft-spoken computers, free-roaming dinosaurs, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate population of 9.456 billion Arlyans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Institute. The average income tax rate is 77.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Arlyan economy, worth a remarkable 1,646 trillion Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 174,149 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's only university is the School of Hard Knocks, sermons are regularly interrupted by businessmen taking phone calls, tourists outnumber citizens two to one, and citizens are deployed to barren deserts to protect small territorial claims. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Arlya's national animal is the Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Arlya is ranked 34,276^th in the world and 1,921^st in Balder for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 5,223.23 on the Gilded Widget Scale.