The Painters Guild of Rembrandt van Rijn is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn with an iron fist, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, frequent executions, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 45.582 billion Rembrandt van Rijnians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Industry, although Law & Order, Administration, and Defense are also considered important, while Welfare and International Aid receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Leiden. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Rembrandt van Rijnian economy, worth a remarkable 7,687 trillion guldens a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 168,662 guldens, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 497,072 per year while the poor average 45,032, a ratio of 11.0 to 1.

Public hospital staff roll their eyes at anything less than a heart attack, pet owners must make a payment if their charges leave a deposit, Jack Russells have proven to be terrible spies, and wedding bands come in pairs to form wedding manacles. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive. Rembrandt van Rijn's national animal is the leeuw, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Atheism.

Rembrandt van Rijn is ranked 258^th in the world and 3^rd in Nederland for Largest Populations, with 45.6 billion capita.