The People's Republic of Rakya is a tiny, safe nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 9 million Rakyans 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, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 67.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The basket case Rakyan economy, worth 107 billion Davirs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 11,937 Davirs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Same-sex marriages are increasingly common, euthanasia is legal, a crusade against barbaric religious practices has begun, and the new airport at Mr. Giles' farm is panicking his sheep. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rakya's national animal is the Mountain Chicken, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Rakya is ranked 109,552^nd in the world and 1^st in New Adizzia for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 33.16 on the Bus Surprisal Index.