The Republic of Ralphburg is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Ralph J Russell with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 9.362 billion Ralphburgers are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ralphburg. The average income tax rate is 16.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ralphburgian economy, worth a remarkable 2,531 trillion Dogecoins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 270,364 Dogecoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Savvy students quote paywalled research knowing that university lecturers can't afford to check the citations, the nation's leading climatologists are investigating animal flatulence in efforts to reduce methane emissions, the restriction that you must be over 1.1 metres tall to ride a carnotaurus has recently been waived, and the overhead luggage compartment is often full. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ralphburg's national animal is the big smoldog, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Ralphburg is ranked 9,853^rd in the world and 233^rd in the South Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 411.05 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.