The Republic of Rudastan is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by Mates with a fair hand, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, ban on automobiles, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 10.596 billion Rudastanis 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, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tepia. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Rudastani economy, worth a remarkable 2,534 trillion crowns 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 Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 239,232 crowns, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Nude art is becoming wildly popular, dogs are encouraged to confront the psychodynamic roots of their desire to be "good boys", people seem disproportionately distraught when told a museum has a phones-off policy, and space research funding has hit a recent high while several military bases are being closed down. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Rudastan's national animal is the duck, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Rudastan is ranked 307,025^th in the world and 4,102^nd in The East Pacific for Fattest Citizens, with 1.03 Obesity Rate.