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The Council Confederacy of Archeum is a massive, economically powerful nation, ruled by Head Council Arteros Foroe with a fair hand, and remarkable for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.227 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Commerce, and Law & Order. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Archoleus. The average income tax rate is 97%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Most of the nation's wealthy aristocrats are dentists, the government is forced to pander to the will of every fruitcake politician, government-run screening operations remove embryos with severe genetic disorders, and most citizens in Archeum are abject pyrophobes after extremely graphic pamphlets were mailed nationwide by the government. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Archeum's national animal is the Eagle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Bhuddism, and its currency is the Archeum Eos.

Archeum is ranked 1,653rd in Balder and 79,557th in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 15 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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