The Republic of Arsenal Site 39 is a small, safe nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The devout population of 23 million Arsenal Site 39ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Welfare, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 74.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The basket case Arsenal Site 39ian economy, worth 146 billion baht a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Cheese Exports industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 6,377 baht, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Arsenal Site 39's national animal is the cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Arsenal Site 39 is ranked 76,600^th in the world and 704^th in the Rejected Realms for Nicest Citizens, with 15.9 average smiles per day.