The Republic of Ariusgrad is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Arius with an iron fist, and notable for its avowedly heterosexual populace, ubiquitous missile silos, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful, devout population of 17.186 billion Arians 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 enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ariusgrad. The average income tax rate is 98.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Ariusgradian economy, worth a remarkable 2,777 trillion philpesoes a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 161,599 philpesoes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Arius spends weekends doing the laundry of foreign leaders, Ariusgrad's heavy congestion charges are the bane of motorists' lives, the government denies that it has an agency overseeing plausible deniability of black-ops agencies, and the nation was recently voted as the most stylish in Philippines. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ariusgrad's national animal is the kraken, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Christianity.

Ariusgrad is ranked 3,570^th in the world and 3^rd in Philippines for Most Cultured, scoring 176 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.