The Protectorate of RD-1 is a gargantuan, safe nation, notable for its public floggings, otherworldly petting zoo, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 27.952 billion RD-1ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 11.4%.

The strong RD-1ian economy, worth 912 trillion $$s a year, is quite specialized and led by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Soda Sales, Automobile Manufacturing, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 32,639 $$s, with the richest citizens earning 6.5 times as much as the poorest.

Many friends and relatives of Leader have been given ambassador jobs in tropical island nations, the weather report is the prisoners' favourite programme, the saying 'break a leg' is now taken literally, and citizens are constantly disappointed to find their nuisance neighbours are still alive. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. RD-1's national animal is the Dolly Varden, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

RD-1 is ranked 224,198^th in the world and 1^st in Red Deer for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 37.4 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.