The People's Republic of Rathanur is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Halrax with a fair hand, and renowned for its national health service, smutty television, and lack of airports. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 13.947 billion Rathanurians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rathano. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Rathanurian economy, worth a remarkable 3,721 trillion antarins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 266,810 antarins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Rathanur recently hosted the least successful trade negotiations since The Phantom Menace, the nation has welcomed its expats back with open arms, relations with Dàguó have warmed from frosty to chilly, and science centers and state of the art laboratories are ubiquitous. Crime is totally unknown. Rathanur's national animal is the wyvern, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Humanism.

Rathanur is ranked 5,177^th in the world and 7^th in Karma for Highest Average Incomes, with 266,810.28 Standard Monetary Units.