The Republic of Ruby Tree is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Mage Consul with an even hand, and remarkable for its punitive income tax rates, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cheerful population of 3.527 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 95.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Ruby Treean economy, worth 478 trillion florins a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 135,688 florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A positive GPA is all it takes to get an elite education, authorities are looking for a stool pigeon to rat out who is stealing food from pigeon toilets, a popular saying is "a chicken for every pot and an abortion clinic on every street", and prosecutors are tucked into bed by the household police officer. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded 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 2,727^th in the world and 6^th in The Frontier Sea for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 102.59 on the Kitten Softness Rating.