The People's Republic of Relgane is a mid-sized, orderly nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The cynical, devout population of 56 million Relganeans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 67.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Relganean economy, worth 1.67 trillion Mantanas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Furniture Restoration, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 29,846 Mantanas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Virtual assistants are seen with increasing suspicion every time they get an upgrade, the government violently suppresses separatist movements, election ballot papers are so long that unused ones are recycled as toilet roll, and internet trolls are considered valiant supporters of the right to free speech. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Relgane's national animal is the Bull, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Relgane is ranked 282,997^th in the world and 80^th in Southern Forest for Smartest Citizens, with 16.06 quips per hour.