The People's Republic of Rendang-Lobo is a mammoth, safe nation, ruled by Colonel Dipa with an iron fist, and remarkable for its frequent executions, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 6.22 billion Rendangans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Modal. The average income tax rate is 72.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Rendang-Loboan economy, worth 117 trillion Takas 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 mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 18,828 Takas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Money can't buy happiness but it can buy immunity to prosecution, life expectancies inside correctional facilities vastly exceed the national average, tourists on boat cruises can't figure out why they smell so fishy afterward, and professionals are ready to retire by the time they receive permission to use their credentials. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rendang-Lobo's national animal is the Myna, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities, and its national religion is Sunni Islam.

Rendang-Lobo is ranked 84,140^th in the world and 7^th in Arusuki for Most Cultured, scoring 67 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.