The People's Republic of Rathanur is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Halrax with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, anti-smoking policies, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 8.686 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, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. 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 2,051 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 236,232 antarins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Government theft from poor artists to give to rich allies has been dubbed the "reverse Robin Hood" policy, re-education centers are being added to most prisons, space has been brought down to earth with constellations of cancer cases across Rathanur, and octogenarian swimsuit models insist that they've still got it. Crime is totally unknown. Rathanur's national animal is the cockatrice, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Humanism.

Rathanur is ranked 5,875^th in the world and 4^th in Karma for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 11,516.75 on the Gilded Widget Scale.