The Colony of Ridmonian Development is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, zero percent divorce rate, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.676 billion Ridmonian Developmentians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Progressus. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 23.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Ridmonian Developmentian economy, worth 181 trillion Yuls a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 108,523 Yuls, with the richest citizens earning 9.8 times as much as the poorest.

Leader is the self-declared God of all Ridmonian Development, the government burgles the houses of holidaying citizens, slow dancing is made trickier when Auntie Edna insists on standing between the couple's arms, and political visitors are forced to stop ten paces from Leader's throne. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ridmonian Development's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Ridmonian Development is ranked 169,337^th in the world and 154^th in Refugia for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 150.69 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.