The Constitutional Empire of Armus Republic is a gargantuan, efficient nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, deadly medical pandemics, and daily referendums. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 22.94 billion Republicans 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 minute government, or what there is of one, is solely concerned with Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Polis. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Republican economy, worth a remarkable 6,415 trillion Rounds a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 279,651 Rounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

Mountain rescue missions can end with more people lost than found, edgy teens know that illegal discos are where the cool cats hang, escaped birthday balloons are torpedoed out of the sky, and odysseying merchant sailors swear that they've heard sirens in the western seas. Crime is all-pervasive, probably because of the absence of a police force. Armus Republic's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Christianity.

Armus Republic is ranked 280,400^th in the world and 291^st in The Land of Kings and Emperors for Highest Food Quality, scoring 5.91 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.