The United States of Raise Tide is a very large, efficient nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape and suspicion of poets. The hard-working, cynical population of 446 million Raise Tideans are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.9%.

The very strong Raise Tidean economy, worth 28.6 trillion Inks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Trout Farming, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 64,172 Inks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 196,033 per year while the poor average 16,282, a ratio of 12.0 to 1.

Children are brutally beaten for saying gyatt and skibidi, the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, organ donation is compulsory, and genetic researchers have been expelled. Crime is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Raise Tide's national animal is the Scriptgeist, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Raise Tide is ranked 292,019^th in the world and 36^th in Sui for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -6.5 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.