The Incorporated States of Ruplor is a small, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its fear of technology, irreverence towards religion, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 45 million Ruplorians are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The tiny, moralistic, pro-business government is primarily concerned with Industry, with Defense, Healthcare, and Public Transport also on the agenda, while Social Policy and International Aid are ignored. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.6%.

The all-consuming Ruplorian economy, worth 2.72 trillion dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Pizza Delivery, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 60,548 dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 407,000 per year while the poor average 3,366, a ratio of 120 to 1.

Legions of police officers force people to move into massive urban apartments, school lockers are filled with fancy underwear, scavengers with burlap sacks and shovels skulk around graveyards, and stores employing more than 100 employees are required to be at least twenty miles from any competitor. Crime is pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Ruplor's national animal is the whale, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Ruplor is ranked 126,345^th in the world and 999^th in eta for Highest Average Incomes, with 60,548.15 Standard Monetary Units.