The Malice's Duck of Rudastan is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Rudak with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 5.739 billion Rudastanis 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, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Lair. The average income tax rate is 98.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Rudastani economy, worth 976 trillion blood-soaked daggers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 170,136 blood-soaked daggers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Elementary school students are required to master Bach's Chaconne in D before graduation, convicted criminals are given free limo rides to jail, authorities are looking for a stool pigeon to rat out who is stealing food from pigeon toilets, and Rudastani Standard Vodka is the only drink that bars stock. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rudastan's national animal is the malice, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Overseerism.

Rudastan is ranked 4,053^rd in the world and 3^rd in The Brotherhood of Malice for Most Beautiful Environments, with 2,620.33 pounds of wildlife per square mile.