The Most Ancient Republic of Ridann is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by the Grand Protector with an iron fist, and remarkable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, ubiquitous missile silos, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 38.579 billion Uberstani 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 government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ultrapolis. The average income tax rate is 78.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Uberstani economy, worth an astonishing 10,978 trillion Lucres a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Tourism. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 284,569 Lucres, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

All major public areas are watched by police surveillance cameras, it is mandatory to learn evolution in schools, charity workers were first up against the wall when the time came, and the government is a law unto itself. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ridann's national animal is the Emperor Crocodile, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is a blend of state backed philosophies.

Ridann is ranked 4,948^th in the world and 108^th in The East Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 158 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.