The Union of Arcturus Novus is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Tertius Quirinus Maro with a fair hand, and notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, unlimited-speed roads, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 27.788 billion Arcturans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal government prioritizes Education, with Social Policy, Healthcare, and Environment also on the agenda, while Spirituality receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Veri. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Arcturan economy, worth a remarkable 5,939 trillion aurs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Information Technology. Average income is an amazing 213,749 aurs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Parents often leave their kids in the car while they attend mindfulness meditation sessions, one does not simply walk into the tundra, high school bands practice by moonlight, and cricket farmers use magnifying glasses to fit every member of their herd with tiny tracking tags. Crime is totally unknown. Arcturus Novus's national animal is the Arcturan valehound, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Arcturan Orthodoxy.

Arcturus Novus is ranked 286,540^th in the world and 899^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Conservative, scoring 25.92 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.