The Free Land of Renee is a mammoth, pleasant nation, notable for its avant-garde cinema, parental licensing program, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed population of 8.597 billion Reneeans have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 11.1%.

The strong Reneean economy, worth 573 trillion guilders a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 66,705 guilders, with the richest citizens earning 8.0 times as much as the poorest.

Bureaucrats close new businesses for not complying with the Penguin Packaging Index, Reneean husbands are dead good at fathering kids, evenings at university debating societies often end with everyone acknowledging both sides may well be right, and theatre may or may not be changing for the better but it is being changed for good. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Renee's national animal is the eagle.

Renee is ranked 251,895^th in the world and 72^nd in Serenity for Most Cultured, scoring 62 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.