The Empire of Imperial Rustan is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by Emperor Ronan with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ubiquitous missile silos, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 5.992 billion Rustanians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bildon City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 12.9%.

The strong Imperial Rustanian economy, worth 350 trillion Weights a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Soda Sales, Basket Weaving, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 58,510 Weights, with the richest citizens earning 5.4 times as much as the poorest.

The government is avowedly secular, traffic cops are puzzled to see that nobody exceeds the speed limits, people who tease dwarfs are being cut down to size, and getting a blood transfusion from a Rustanian entitles a foreigner to citizenship. Crime, especially youth-related, is moderate. Imperial Rustan's national animal is the Horse, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Imperial Rustan is ranked 128,880^th in the world and 16^th in Audinesca for Largest Black Market, with 1.55 trillion Standard Monetary Units.