The State of Prince Raymond is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by the Governor with an even hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, keen interest in outer space, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 46.422 billion Prince Raymondians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and look forward to their next free and open election, to be held on an as-yet unannounced date.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Westminster. The average income tax rate is 12.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Prince Raymondian economy, worth a remarkable 4,001 trillion betales a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Retail. Average income is 86,196 betales, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

One tree's worth of paperwork accompanies each imported log of timber, some Prince Raymondian athletes have defected to Blackacre after being denied the chance to compete in international sporting events, doctors who mutter "Oh my God" often lose their medical license, and knock-knock jokes regularly get removed from websites for being too edgy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Prince Raymond's national animal is the deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Prince Raymond is ranked 260,873^rd in the world and 1^st in Prince Raymond for Most Cultured, scoring 61 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.