The Sultanate of Rakurai is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles and irreverence towards religion. The quiet, industrious population of 4.473 billion Rakuraians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Public Transport, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 23.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Rakuraian economy, worth 189 trillion Delta Eagles a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Woodchip Exports, and Soda Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 42,315 Delta Eagles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Superfoods are often seen as supervillains, the government seizes the property of the recently deceased, exorbitant spending on icebreakers breaks the ice at every budget meeting, and people who tease dwarfs are being cut down to size. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rakurai's national animal is the Kitsune, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Rakurai is ranked 87,696^th in the world and 1^st in Peoples Republic for Largest Black Market, with 3.38 trillion Standard Monetary Units.