The Syndicalist Union of Ragnaria is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Chairman of the Congress Philip Balfour with a fair hand, and renowned for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 36.573 billion Ragnarians 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 relatively small, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government prioritizes Education, although Administration, Environment, and Defense are also considered important, while Spirituality and Law & Order aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Congress City. The average income tax rate is 74.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ragnarian economy, worth an astonishing 11,029 trillion People's Econas 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 a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Book Publishing, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. 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 an amazing 301,574 People's Econas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Prisoners can't do number twos without their "toilet buddy" present, good-looking soldier boys have celebrity status amongst the nation's homosexuals, the police double as repo men, and armed war-criminals gain asylum if deemed 'fabulous' enough. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, probably because of the absence of a police force. Ragnaria's national animal is the Akraklia, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ragnaria is ranked 10,851^st in the world and 180^th in The Leftist Assembly for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 5,196.91 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.