The State of Rhondale Beach is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 35.002 billion Rhondale Beachians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 73.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Rhondale Beachian economy, worth 704 trillion betales 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 significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 20,115 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Rhondale Beach is notorious for its citizens' infidelity, genetic research is temporarily tied up in government red tape, elections have recently been reintroduced to Rhondale Beach, and Rhondale Beach has designated Capital Heights as its capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rhondale Beach's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Rhondale Beach is ranked 29,214^th in the world and 31^st in State for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 73.53 Effective Tax Rate.