The Cybernetic Utopia of Steampunk Ariel is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by S'C'U'T'T'L'E with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 1.885 billion Cybernetic Mermaids enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Atlantica. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 57.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Cybernetic economy, worth 236 trillion seashells a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an impressive 125,538 seashells, with the richest citizens earning 6.2 times as much as the poorest.

Legal contracts aren't worth the paper they're written on, all telephone traffic is monitored for 'national security reasons', the "swords to plowshares" policy has created a generation of farmers that can kill a yak from 200 yards away, and ill and injured visitors in Steampunk Ariel have to walk it off until they return home. Crime is almost non-existent. Steampunk Ariel's national animal is the clockwork crayon ponyfish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Animism.

Steampunk Ariel is ranked 155,091^st in the world and 8,290^th in The North Pacific for Most Ignorant Citizens, with 1.17 Missed References Per Hour.