The Galactic Empire of Riptaria is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by general degaras with an iron fist, and remarkable for its frequent executions, state-planned economy, and avowedly heterosexual populace. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 7.977 billion Riptarians, 7.589 billion of whom are zombies, are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is effectively ruled by the Department of Defense, with Law & Order also on the agenda, while Social Policy and Environment receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of riptaria city. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Riptarian economy, worth an astonishing 13,672 trillion ripion doller and pound ripions a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is a breathtaking 759,862 ripion doller and pound ripions, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

SOS from foreign ships mean "shoot on sight", veterans' meet-ups involve a lot of tail sniffing, nations across the world are quick to praise general degaras's good looks and intellectual prowess, and the nation has cemented its own architectural style. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Riptaria's national animal is the slave, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Atheism.

Riptaria is ranked 313,927^th in the world and 55^th in The United Federations for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -28.81 on the Clooney Contribution Index.