The Venerable Eco-Dorks of Refugia is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by The Arch-Administrator with a fair hand, and remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.608 billion Refugi are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Admin Tower. The average income tax rate is 73.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Refugi economy, worth 30.4 trillion planets a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Basket Weaving, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 6,598 planets, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Third world countries are rich in "I Love The Admin Tower" t-shirts, poaching has been on the rise after animals from the nation's zoos were released into the wild, white strait-jackets are the new orange jumpsuits, and hostage-takers offer loyalty scheme points for prompt payment. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Refugia's national animal is the Dot, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Refugia is ranked 225,625^th in the world and 332^nd in Refugia for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 214.02 on the Gilded Widget Scale.