The Knights of Polaris of Ardentus is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by The Immortal with an even hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, anti-smoking policies, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The compassionate, cheerful population of 19.723 billion Ardentians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Polaris. The average income tax rate is 93.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ardentusian economy, worth a remarkable 3,351 trillion Caps 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 169,948 Caps, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government forces Ardentians to eat their vegetables, no one questions why the chicken crossed the road anymore, death is nobody's business, and fraternities are rejoicing at government-subsidized partying. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ardentus's national animal is the Radstag, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Auroranism.

Ardentus is ranked 3,065^th in the world and 1^st in The Fallout Wasteland for Most Developed, scoring 97.15 on the Human Development Index.