The Madness of The Rickest Rick is a titanic, cultured nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, public floggings, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 18.841 billion Ricks enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Citadel of Ricks. The average income tax rate is 9.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Rick economy, worth 746 trillion Portal Guns a year, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Gambling. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 39,598 Portal Guns, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Copyright laws have been abolished, the law is more interested in punishing crime than preventing it, giant beards and handlebar moustaches are increasingly popular, and the internet has been placed under government control. Crime is moderate, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. The Rickest Rick's national animal is the Morty, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

The Rickest Rick is ranked 193,858^th in the world and 4^th in Citadel of Ricks for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 6,168.9 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.