The Empire of Rushav is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Dan Elkin with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, pith helmet sales, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, devout population of 1.58 billion Rushavians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Karvin. The average income tax rate is 69.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Rushavian economy, worth 164 trillion Zyres a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 104,092 Zyres, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The number of students attending university has reached a record high, the letters L, G, and B must never be grouped together, businesses are forced to bring all work back within the nation's borders, and solving crossword puzzles requires fluency in at least five languages. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rushav's national animal is the Lynx, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Confucianism.

Rushav is ranked 14,509^th in the world and 24^th in Aesica for Most Cultured, scoring 98 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.