The Arcs' Syndicate of Trauma Sovereign is a massive, socially progressive nation, notable for its state-planned economy, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.21 billion Arcs 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, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Orbital Misery. The average income tax rate is 68.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Arc economy, worth 42.2 trillion Photons a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 19,099 Photons, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Students memorise knock-knock jokes for their mandatory twice-a-term Comedy Examinations, homophobia is off the menu, Trauma Sovereign has designated Orbital Misery as its capital city, and enemy navies sail within bombardment range of major coastal cities with impunity. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Trauma Sovereign's national animal is the Monstera Plant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Trauma Sovereign is ranked 118,372^nd in the world and 40^th in The Galactics Union for Most Cultured, scoring 66 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.