The People's Republic of Rathanur is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by Halrax with a fair hand, and renowned for its ban on automobiles, free-roaming dinosaurs, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 13.849 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 Administration, Education, 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 3,670 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 265,041 antarins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Scientists are terrified of fabulous new breakthroughs, school plays were recently banned due to concerns of child endangerment, it's often raining men (hallelujah) in Rathano, and trade policy consists of ganging up on the new guy. 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 289^th in the world and 1^st in Karma for Nicest Citizens, with 138.16 average smiles per day.