The Republic of Retcorp is a colossal, orderly nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape. The cynical population of 8.734 billion black hawks 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 46.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped black hawk economy, worth 222 trillion regions a year, is quite specialized and led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Gambling, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 25,489 regions, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Military spending recently hit a new high and the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Retcorp's national animal is the black hawk, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Retcorp is ranked 156,959^th in the world and 3,255^th in Suspicious for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 509.24 on the Gilded Widget Scale.