The Rectory of Rapa-Rapa is a massive, orderly nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, avant-garde cinema, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, cynical population of 1.643 billion Rapa-Rapans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 63.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Rapa-Rapan economy, worth 56.7 trillion Rectorial Talers a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Arms Manufacturing, and Soda Sales. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 34,484 Rectorial Talers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Posh restaurants scatter glass fragments on the dining room floor to keep out barefoot undesirables, female newsreaders distract the nation by breastfeeding during broadcast, the nation threatens sanctions on islands only visible at low tide, and political activists are routinely executed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rapa-Rapa's national animal is the Rectorial Labrador, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Rapa-Rapa is ranked 115,304^th in the world and 4^th in Urcean Rectories for Most Corrupt Governments, with 10.08 kickbacks per hour.