The Republic of Restelsche is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Chancellor Ben Marx with a fair hand, and renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, smutty television, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.142 billion Restelscheans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rivendell. The average income tax rate is 71.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Restelschean economy, worth 147 trillion Euros a year, is quite specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 68,935 Euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Bad punctuation has come to a full stop, online terrorists are automatically assigned adverts for cheap balaclavas, the government is promoting multicultural values with the new 'Just Be Nice, OK?' initiative, and members of the government all have oddly similar anecdotes about their childhoods. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Restelsche's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Restelsche is ranked 171,225^th in the world and 218^th in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Populations, with 2.14 billion capita.