The Republic of Ranan Larda is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Ranan with an iron fist, and renowned for its public floggings, complete lack of prisons, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 15.497 billion Ranan Lardans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Larda. The average income tax rate is 95.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Ranan Lardan economy, worth a remarkable 4,005 trillion kronor a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an amazing 258,480 kronor, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Organ donation is compulsory, emigrants arrive on foreign shores with nothing but pocket sand, suspicious locals close their doors leaving tourists to suffer the elements by themselves, and the nation has declared its intention to "stretch out". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ranan Larda's national animal is the beaver, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Ranan Lardan.

Ranan Larda is ranked 231,669^th in the world and 2^nd in Sikh Empire for Most Primitive, scoring -110.54 on the Scary Big Number Scale.