The United States of RAFAQUISTAO is a large, efficient nation, renowned for its digital currency, sprawling nuclear power plants, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 56 million RAFAQUISTAOians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 9.3%.

The powerhouse RAFAQUISTAOian economy, worth 4.49 trillion RF$s a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Pizza Delivery, and Book Publishing. Average income is 80,097 RF$s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.1 times as much as the poorest.

Model railroad hobbyists have taken to muscling model shipbuilders off their "turf", RAFAQUISTAO Barrier Island residents anxiously await their 'Bridge to Somewhere', airport security is provided by private companies, and high school bands practice by moonlight. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. RAFAQUISTAO's national animal is the Cobra, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

RAFAQUISTAO is ranked 217,457^th in the world and 4,247^th in the South Pacific for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -4.47 on the Clooney Contribution Index.