The Community of Ravinge is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its absence of drug laws, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 392 million Ravingeans 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, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 71.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Ravingean economy, worth 19.0 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Cheese Exports, and Information Technology. Average income is 48,573 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Small children are learning a lot of new words from a teacher with Tourette Syndrome, children crying over dropped ice creams are offered high doses of experimental antidepressants, elections have become procedural nightmares due to voters persistently rejecting candidates, and a flying elephant and Leader share the same nickname. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ravinge's national animal is the rainwing, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ravinge is ranked 10,640^th in the world and 344^th in the South Pacific for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 63.29 on the Kitten Softness Rating.