The SPOONY SPOONICUS THE 2ND of Rechol is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Friedhold Afanasy Stern with an iron fist, and notable for its public floggings, daily referendums, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 2.079 billion Recholians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Malvarostok. The average income tax rate is 69.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Recholian economy, worth 254 trillion guilders a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 122,465 guilders, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Uprooting flowers for religious ceremonies is a felony, children's bedrooms are often decorated with posters of successful accountants, anyone who sleeps in past 9am can be declared legally dead, and minor parties are virtually absent in Parliament. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rechol's national animal is the Golden Bear, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Islam.

Rechol is ranked 73,999^th in the world and 23^rd in Albastru for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 3,080.85 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.