The Republic of -Rice Shower- is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its closed borders, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 880 million -Rice Shower-ians 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 enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 70.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong -Rice Shower-ian economy, worth 53.2 trillion currencies a year, is led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 60,422 currencies, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens wishing to be parents must undertake a series of gruelling tests to evaluate their capabilities, acute politicians deride opposition members for being obtuse, cassocked priests and choirboys believe that what happens behind closed doors stays behind closed doors, and the nation's police officers are famously miserable-looking. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. -Rice Shower-'s national animal is the animal, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

-Rice Shower- is ranked 87,487^th in the world and 434^th in Izern for Most Developed, scoring 64.82 on the Human Development Index.