The Gloomy Myst Covered Kingdom of Arrandal is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by King Jadzia III with an iron fist, and remarkable for its digital currency, suspicion of poets, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 16.782 billion Arrands are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small, corrupt government is primarily concerned with Industry, although Environment and Law & Order are also considered important, while Welfare and Social Policy aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bravondy. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 39.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Arrandi economy, worth a remarkable 3,343 trillion Malor Draaks a year, is dominated by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with significant contributions from Gambling, Cheese Exports, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 199,218 Malor Draaks, with the richest citizens earning 6.0 times as much as the poorest.

Schoolchildren's "what I did on my holidays" essays tend to be somewhat homogeneous, foreign governments regularly accuse the Arrandi military of war crimes, many are questioning King Jadzia III wearing an Eckie-Ecola baseball cap during a keynote speech, and hospitals have to sell their computers on vBay in order to afford the ransomware decryption payments. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Arrandal's national animal is the Fuzzy Hat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Argent Orthodoxy.

Arrandal is ranked 126,465^th in the world and 2,447^th in The North Pacific for Most Armed, with 0.34 weapons per person.