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The Federal Republic of Aranvia is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 359 million Aranvians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The tiny, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 7.7%.

The thriving Aranvian economy, worth 27.5 trillion Aranvian Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Furniture Restoration, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 76,559 Aranvian Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.1 times as much as the poorest.

Evasive politicians don't fail to strongly commit to not committing to a course of non-inaction, chalkboards are replaced with billboards in the classroom, giant beards and handlebar moustaches are increasingly popular, and vital intelligence-gathering activities are put on hold as agents return home for seduction training and advanced poker instruction. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, thanks to a capable police force. Aranvia's national animal is the Aranvian Goat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Aranvia is ranked 267,767^th in the world and 164^th in Africa for Largest Governments, scoring 9.27 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.