The Community of Ravinge is a very large, socially progressive nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 462 million Ravingeans 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 government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 72.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Ravingean economy, worth 22.0 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Cheese Exports, and Information Technology. Average income is 47,627 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Organised sports are frowned upon as frivolous, a suspicious number of male students have joined the Ladies' Wrestling League, adults pretending to be teenage girls claim to have wholesome motives, and prisoners can't do number twos without their "toilet buddy" present. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ravinge's national animal is the rainwing, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ravinge is ranked 65,792^nd in the world and 890^th in the South Pacific for Highest Poor Incomes, with 45,528.46 Standard Monetary Units.