The Borderlands of Rei is a mammoth, orderly nation, renowned for its ritual sacrifices, zero percent divorce rate, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 9.33 billion Reians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 73.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Reian economy, worth 954 trillion credits a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 102,281 credits, with the richest citizens earning 6.3 times as much as the poorest.

One little fight can find you movin' to be the fresh prince of Ilba, foreign policy is mostly just to smile and hope for the best, it isn't a secret plot without caviar and foie gras, and cash-strapped Reians scour their bodies for fortuitous zits. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rei's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Rei is ranked 284,931^st in the world and 19^th in Abraxas for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 304.48 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.