The Federated State of Rainengrad is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Comrade Kegelkop with an even hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, state-planned economy, and soft-spoken computers. The hard-nosed, cheerful population of 22.162 billion Rainengradians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The medium-sized, corrupt, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Faraberline. The average income tax rate is 96.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Rainengradian economy, worth a remarkable 9,724 trillion Lexells 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. 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 an amazing 438,797 Lexells, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Government theft from poor artists to give to rich allies has been dubbed the "reverse Robin Hood" policy, the nation is currently revamping its entire education system, souvenir shops that sell alphorns are taking advantage of gullible tourists, and ignorance is considered a politically desirable quality. Crime is totally unknown. Rainengrad's national animal is the soltegu, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Zonneregenisme.

Rainengrad is ranked 474^th in the world and 8^th in The North Pacific for Highest Poor Incomes, with 390,042.56 Standard Monetary Units.