The Empire of Rhetiaa is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Her Imperial Majesty Empress Odet with an iron fist, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, prohibition of alcohol, and frequent executions. The compassionate, cynical population of 13.38 billion Rhetiaans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Panem. The average income tax rate is 94.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Rhetiaan economy, worth a remarkable 2,202 trillion Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 164,624 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Refugees from other nations are flocking to Rhetiaa's border, mountain rescue missions can end with more people lost than found, there's never enough space in space, and military equipment stores have a tendency to go up in flames. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rhetiaa's national animal is the Phoenix, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is The Church of Rhetiaa.

Rhetiaa is ranked 19,998^th in the world and 387^th in the South Pacific for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 7,144.94 on the Gilded Widget Scale.