The Republic of Ruby Tree is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Mage Consul with an even hand, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, anti-smoking policies, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cheerful population of 3.401 billion Ruby Treeans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Concorde Valley. The average income tax rate is 95.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Ruby Treean economy, worth 466 trillion florins a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 137,152 florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Old dogs don't have to learn new tricks but they have to prove they haven't forgotten old ones, major cities run on potato batteries, crossbow bolts fill the skies if so much as a sparrow flies overhead, and international tensions are high as Ruby Tree threatens any government with the audacity to arrest its citizens. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ruby Tree's national animal is the unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ruby Tree is ranked 5,432^nd in the world and 8^th in The Frontier Sea for Most Cultured, scoring 152 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.