The United States of Renolds is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its teetotalling pirates, prohibition of alcohol, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 653 million Renoldenses are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Primeforce. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 60.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Renoldense economy, worth 94.8 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 145,218 cards, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 571,477 per year while the poor average 25,045, a ratio of 22.8 to 1.

Good-looking doctors are obliged by law to give foot rubs to Leader, serial killers are the country's biggest import, citizens who leave the country are officially classed as traitors, and little children cry as their rainbow drawings are seized by the Straight-Thought Police. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Renolds's national animal is the bear, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Renolds is ranked 90,487^th in the world and 154^th in Aeternum for Rudest Citizens, with 58.7 insults per minute.