The State of El Rita is a titanic, pleasant nation, ruled by Lord Chairman of Claus with a fair hand, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape and irreverence towards religion. The hard-working, democratic population of 16.385 billion El Ritans enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Park. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 13.9%.

The strong El Ritan economy, worth 949 trillion dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Automobile Manufacturing, and Retail. Average income is 57,973 dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 175,654 per year while the poor average 14,882, a ratio of 11.8 to 1.

Military spending is on the increase, El Rita has designated Capital Park as its capital city, Lord Chairman of Claus has just been declared ruler of El Rita in an international press conference, and the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly. Crime is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. El Rita's national animal is the great bald eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

El Rita is ranked 235,269^th in the world and 12^th in California for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 192.71 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.