The Holy Roman Empire of The Arenian Republic is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by King Alexander Arenas IV with an iron fist, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, barren, inhospitable landscape, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 3.473 billion Arenians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yggdras. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Arenian Republician economy, worth 670 trillion Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Gambling. Average income is an impressive 192,967 Dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,361,762 per year while the poor average 9,216, a ratio of 147 to 1.

Fancy dress parties are raided by military police for new recruits, wood-framed catapults are ready to launch diseased corpses into besieged cities, atheistic refugees haven't got a prayer of being granted asylum, and the only way to escape lengthy prison terms is in a body bag. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low. The Arenian Republic's national animal is the Bat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Christianity.

The Arenian Republic is ranked 307,949^th in the world and 233^rd in Covenant Shores for Most Primitive, scoring -414.17 on the Scary Big Number Scale.