The United States of RAFAQUISTAO is a small, safe nation, notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, compulsory military service, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 40 million RAFAQUISTAOians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The tiny, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 8.7%.

The thriving RAFAQUISTAOian economy, worth 3.06 trillion RF$s a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Pizza Delivery, and Book Publishing. Average income is 76,513 RF$s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

Any body part that can be cut off a person is no longer considered to be their property, fancy dress parties are raided by military police for new recruits, five-year-olds who refuse to line up on command get gold stars, and pareidolic SETI scientists swear there's a message from aliens hidden within pi. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. RAFAQUISTAO's national animal is the Cobra, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

RAFAQUISTAO is ranked 143,921^st in the world and 2,662^nd in the South Pacific for Most Corrupt Governments, with 3.82 kickbacks per hour.