The State of Raner is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Roman Storl with an even hand, and renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, otherworldly petting zoo, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, devout population of 2.078 billion Ranerians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Healthcare, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ansgraf. The average income tax rate is 70.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Ranerian economy, worth 122 trillion Styeses a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 59,185 Styeses, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is avowedly secular, most of the population has had bad experiences with hoes, police regularly arrest families playing Monopoly, and life expectancies inside correctional facilities vastly exceed the national average. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Raner's national animal is the Red Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Secular.

Raner is ranked 60,403^rd in the world and 96^th in Concord for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 3,244.05 on the Gilded Widget Scale.