The Republic of Rudastan is a titanic, socially progressive nation, ruled by Mates with a fair hand, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 10.625 billion Rudastanis 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, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tepia. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Rudastani economy, worth a remarkable 2,552 trillion crowns a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 240,239 crowns, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Starving citizens are offered nuclear pasta, the voyages of obsolete star-trekking satellites on deliberate escape orbits are only just beginning, public caravans smell like litter boxes, and traumatised refugees have a full bedpan shoved into their hands along with their immigration papers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Rudastan's national animal is the duck, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Rudastan is ranked 310,526^th in the world and 4,162^nd in The East Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -29.85 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.