The Holy Empire of Reltia is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 378 million Reltians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bellend. The average income tax rate is 39.1%.

The all-consuming Reltian economy, worth 34.4 trillion dollars a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 90,926 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.

New safety regulations require all cars manufactured in Reltia to be bombproof, balaclava manufacturers are held criminally culpable for bank heists, it takes a village to catch a criminal, and idyllic countryside scenes see border collies herding sixty-ton dinosaurs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Reltia's national animal is the Cassowary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Reltia is ranked 221,162^nd in the world and 3,273^rd in the Pacific for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 49.01 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.