The Island of Arnelle is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Fangorn Slate with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 2.026 billion Arnelleans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ellestrough. The average income tax rate is 57.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Arnellean economy, worth 229 trillion Elles a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 113,314 Elles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government regularly publishes lengthy reports on its own excessive recordkeeping, high school bands practice by moonlight, the thin blue line is composed of picketing police officers demanding better pensions, and more than one company makes the board game Monopoly. Crime is totally unknown. Arnelle's national animal is the Elleger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Norse.

Arnelle is ranked 75,509^th in the world and 337^th in the Plains of Perdition for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 47,818.66 Standard Monetary Units.