The Commonwealth of Rubricata is a mid-sized, safe nation, remarkable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, irreverence towards religion, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 56 million Rubricatans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 43.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Rubricatan economy, worth 2.41 trillion denarii a year, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Soda Sales, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 43,040 denarii, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is financing an extremely costly war against malaria, would-be emigrants are told "abandon all hope all ye who would exit here", protesters are up in arms over new nuclear power stations, and smoking is banned in public areas. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rubricata's national animal is the jaguar, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Rubricata is ranked 143,524^th in the world and 2,214^th in the South Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 62.57 law-abiding acts per hour.