The Second Interstellar Imperium of New Raffica is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Supreme Chancellor Marcelo Fontelli with an iron fist, and renowned for its hatred of cheese, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 27.926 billion New Rafficians 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 enormous government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zeninberg. The average income tax rate is 98.2%.

The frighteningly efficient New Raffician economy, worth a remarkable 4,861 trillion New Raffician Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 174,083 New Raffician Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Zeninberg has restaurants serving every meat from aardvark to zebra, candidates make campaign speeches at the funerals of former rivals, politicians put their fingers in their ears and sing "la la la la" when walking past lobbyists, and sleep-deprived officials are known to collapse after late night revision for their examinations. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Raffica's national animal is the Cockatiel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is non-existent.

New Raffica is ranked 7,773^rd in the world and 2^nd in Icarus for Highest Poor Incomes, with 139,223.77 Standard Monetary Units.