The Republic of Rhugei is a massive, orderly nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, barren, inhospitable landscape, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 1.034 billion Rhugeians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 42.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Rhugeian economy, worth 95.8 trillion Shillings a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Retail. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 92,652 Shillings, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Sex changes are routinely performed at Rhugei's hospitals, postmen have been arrested in job lots for selling junk mail as home insulation, seven-year-olds debate for weeks on the merits of the Oxford comma, and the contraband cigarette trade is lighting up across Rhugei. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rhugei's national animal is the Lion, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Rhugei is ranked 205,685^th in the world and 73^rd in Union of Christian Nations for Largest Populations, with 1.03 billion capita.