The Federal Republic of Reform City is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its compulsory vegetarianism, rampant corporate plagiarism, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 243 million Reform Cityians 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 enormous, well-organized government prioritizes Law & Order, although Healthcare, Welfare, and Defense are also considered important, while International Aid isn't funded at all. The average income tax rate is 65.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Reform Cityian economy, worth 6.61 trillion Moedoes a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 27,206 Moedoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Marine biology students are shocked to discover that a whale is a mammal, one can walk from one side of Reform City City to the other without setting foot on Reform Cityian soil, "Day of the Rope" is the top song of the summer, and social networking sites have discussion groups devoted to planning terrorist attacks. Crime is well under control, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Reform City's national animal is the Zebro, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Reform City is ranked 280,643^rd in the world and 1,351^st in Europe for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -83.67 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.