The Federal Republic of Maharanidesh is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, soft-spoken computers, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 4.541 billion Ranidescans 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 Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sherkapanja. The average income tax rate is 98.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Ranidesque economy, worth 828 trillion rupees a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 182,451 rupees, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

In musicals everybody's a little bit racist, tax-payers are funding ever more extravagant movie projects, protesters are up in arms over new nuclear power stations, and rumor has it that Leader has won three lotteries in a row. Crime is totally unknown. Maharanidesh's national animal is the collared dove, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Maharanidesh is ranked 1,652^nd in the world and 23^rd in the West Pacific for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 73.1 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.