The Republic of ARF Trooper 1 is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The quiet, industrious population of 1.383 billion ARF Trooper 1ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 36.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient ARF Trooper 1ian economy, worth 52.2 trillion Credits a year, is led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Arms Manufacturing, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 37,737 Credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers, 100-year-old politicians are now a thing of the past, many in ARF Trooper 1 are born in the purple, and one does not simply walk into the tundra. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ARF Trooper 1's national animal is the Droid, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

ARF Trooper 1 is ranked 246,035^th in the world and 3,584^th in eta for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -3.58 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.