The Empire of Rantidine is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its pith helmet sales, smutty television, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.936 billion Rantidineans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 75.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Rantidinean economy, worth 175 trillion Quafs a year, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 90,427 Quafs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Giggling elementary school newspaper reporters want to know why Leader is a silly poophead, most citizens in Rantidine are abject pyrophobes after extremely graphic pamphlets were mailed nationwide by the government, photographers can be found hiding behind the curtains in Leader's bedroom, and the breathalyser pledge is a traditional part of marriages in Rantidine. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rantidine's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Rantidine is ranked 33,630^th in the world and 1,858^th in Balder for Most Cultured, scoring 78 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.