The Democratic Republic of The Red Blade is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and smutty television. The compassionate, devout population of 596 million Red Bladeans enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The enormous, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Scarlet Edge. The average income tax rate is 72.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Red Bladean economy, worth 42.7 trillion Golds a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 71,578 Golds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Snooze factory is now prison lingo for rehabilitation center, a video of Leader wearing shock-blue face paint and smashing an electric guitar in front of a frenzied crowd is on endless repeat on the nightly news, feuilletons can only be deciphered with a Galliennais dictionary, and the Supreme Court vehemently protects civil rights and the right to privacy. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Red Blade's national animal is the kitten, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Red Blade is ranked 277,448^th in the world and 1^st in Solara for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -5.8 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.