The People's Republic of Rathanur is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Halrax with a fair hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, smutty television, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 13.831 billion Rathanurians 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, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rathano. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Rathanurian economy, worth a remarkable 3,665 trillion antarins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 265,041 antarins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Halrax lives life on the open road - complete with groupies, Rathanur has one of the largest offshore wind farms in the world, the weather report is the prisoners' favourite programme, and scientists are terrified of fabulous new breakthroughs. Crime is totally unknown. Rathanur's national animal is the wyvern, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Humanism.

Rathanur is ranked 330,003^rd in the world and 211^th in Karma for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -18.76 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.