The Federated States of Archinos is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by James Alterlisburg with an even hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, sprawling nuclear power plants, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 22.101 billion Archinosians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of San Francis. The average income tax rate is 91.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Archinosian economy, worth a remarkable 2,513 trillion Arcs a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 113,715 Arcs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Destitute athletes are forced to train in the street, gambling addicts regularly lose their families' nest eggs at Native Archinosian casinos, gift baskets often contain working nukes, and claims of miracles are met with calls to eradicate religion as superstitious nonsense. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Archinos's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Secularism.

Archinos is ranked 13,067^th in the world and 20^th in Federation Of Sovereign States for Most Cultured, scoring 102 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.