The Grand Protectorate of Raskana is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by President Andress Marick with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ubiquitous missile silos, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 9.567 billion Raskanens 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 medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Industry, Law & Order, and Administration are also considered important, while Social Policy and Environment aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ederhaven. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 66.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Raskanen economy, worth a remarkable 2,856 trillion Raskanen Shackles a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Retail, and Information Technology. Average income is an amazing 298,584 Raskanen Shackles, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 990,511 per year while the poor average 67,177, a ratio of 14.7 to 1.

Frequent fliers are obliged to submit to invasive security procedures by government security, third world countries are rich in "I Love Ederhaven" t-shirts, the nation has recently been attributed to the funding of terrorist organisations, and government officials frequently cut taxes as a distraction from antics with their secretaries. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Raskana's national animal is the Raskanan Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Raskanen Orthodoxy.

Raskana is ranked 83,821^st in the world and 281^st in 10000 Islands for Most Cultured, scoring 67 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.