The Holy Empire of Arutema is a massive, socially progressive nation, notable for its irreverence towards religion, complete absence of social welfare, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.519 billion archivists enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The tiny, pro-business, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Public Transport, and Healthcare are also considered important, while International Aid and Spirituality aren't funded at all. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.7%.

The strong Aruteman economy, worth 97.6 trillion rupees a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with significant contributions from Gambling, Automobile Manufacturing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 64,265 rupees, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 377,706 per year while the poor average 5,097, a ratio of 74.1 to 1.

Rebuilding efforts for a recently destroyed cathedral aren't expected to be completed for another century, Aruteman athletes are close to breaking the 2 minute mile and the 16 meter long jump, psychiatrists that date patients are congratulated on their romantic conquests, and Mr Happy's Funland has just been named Arutema's new capital. Crime, especially youth-related, is a major problem. Arutema's national animal is the two headed eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Arutema is ranked 233,630^th in the world and 29^th in Testregionia for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 37.42 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.