The People's Republic of Rantopia is a massive, safe nation, ruled by The Fair Rantopian Assembly with an even hand, and renowned for its frequent executions, enforced nudity, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.298 billion Rantopians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cortopiz. The average income tax rate is 84.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Rantopian economy, worth 114 trillion Rans 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 Furniture Restoration, Basket Weaving, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 87,889 Rans, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Starving citizens are offered nuclear pasta, snap elections are called over every minor impasse, royalist is the most offensive slur in the Rantopian language, and children are often punished for the sins of the fathers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rantopia's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Rantopia is ranked 39,464^th in the world and 280^th in The Leftist Assembly for Highest Poor Incomes, with 64,471.84 Standard Monetary Units.