The Kingdom of Rubybergs is a titanic, socially progressive nation, ruled by King ian Melnish with an iron fist, and remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, irreverence towards religion, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 12.228 billion Rubybergsians enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The tiny, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.1%.

The thriving Rubybergsian economy, worth 876 trillion rubies a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Book Publishing, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 71,680 rubies, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 498,747 per year while the poor average 3,584, a ratio of 139 to 1.

Teenagers across the country are celebrating the defeat of a national curfew bill, the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, King ian Melnish has just been declared ruler of Rubybergs in an international press conference, and Rubybergs has designated Rubybergs City as its capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is a serious problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Rubybergs's national animal is the red lobster, which can occasionally be seen avoiding garbage in the nation's murky oceans.

Rubybergs is ranked 148,131^st in the world and 19^th in The waiting room of matheo for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 1,566.46 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.