The Revolutionary Republic of Rathesia is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Comrade Benji with a fair hand, and remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, state-planned economy, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 4.837 billion Rathesians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Belapol. The average income tax rate is 97.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Rathesian economy, worth 770 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 159,212 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Giggling elementary school newspaper reporters want to know why Comrade Benji is a silly poophead, the government has begun selling heroin and ecstasy to help fund its projects, farting etiquette is taught in schools, and science centers and state of the art laboratories are ubiquitous. Crime is totally unknown. Rathesia's national animal is the swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Rathesia is ranked 20,345^th in the world and 500^th in the Rejected Realms for Lowest Crime Rates, with 89.57 law-abiding acts per hour.