The Malice's Duck of Rudastan is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Rudak with a fair hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, keen interest in outer space, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 5.769 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 Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Lair. The average income tax rate is 98.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Rudastani economy, worth 987 trillion blood-soaked daggers 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, Book Publishing, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 171,215 blood-soaked daggers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Intellectual snobbery has the cognoscenti sneering at anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the semiological drift of Umberto Eco's works, bowling teams spend more time looking at their phones than the pins, the Supreme Court vehemently protects civil rights and the right to privacy, and students memorise knock-knock jokes for their mandatory twice-a-term Comedy Examinations. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rudastan's national animal is the malice, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Overseerism.

Rudastan is ranked 9,006^th in the world and 12^th in The Brotherhood of Malice for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 10,029.02 on the Gilded Widget Scale.