The Community of Kurosawa Ruby is a tiny, safe nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The democratic population of 16 million Kurosawa Rubyians 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 Welfare, Healthcare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 63.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The basket case Kurosawa Rubyian economy, worth 175 billion rupees a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Retail, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 10,968 rupees, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

More sidewalk is dedicated to animals than people, 'A is for Annulment' is a popular children's song, billions of rupees are being poured into a space program, and turning the other cheek is accompanied by a polite letter of complaint. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kurosawa Ruby's national animal is the bison, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Kurosawa Ruby is ranked 275,548^th in the world and 18^th in World Unity Federation for Most Conservative, scoring 22.43 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.