The Holy Monastic Republic of The Archregimancy is a gargantuan, cultured nation, remarkable for its compulsory vegetarianism, frequent executions, and public floggings. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 45.668 billion Monks are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

The relatively small, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Greatest Lavra. The average income tax rate is 14.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Monastic economy, worth 154 trillion tithes a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 3,377 tithes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government-sponsored autobiography 'A Leader For All Seasons' has only been bought by the most loyal of Leader's supporters, hay has been added to school cafeteria menus, contemporary art museums showcase the latest in centuries-old art, and the government is giving peace a chance. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Archregimancy's national animal is the lesser spotted aurochs, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Orthodox Christianity.

The Archregimancy is ranked 245,725^th in the world and 2^nd in The Dreamed Realm for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 26.23 on the Bus Surprisal Index.