The Bijna Perfecte Kopie of Riemstagrad II is a gargantuan, cultured nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, public floggings, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 33.994 billion Riemstagrad IIians 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 large, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Social Policy. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 64.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Riemstagrad IIian economy, worth a remarkable 3,388 trillion BEFS a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is 99,665 BEFS, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 368,377 per year while the poor average 19,007, a ratio of 19.4 to 1.

Insurance companies charge extortionate premiums to cover homes near waterways, an IT mega-corporation has a patent pending on the rectangle, replacement organs are grown in vats, and only 'organics' are permitted to be citizens. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, probably because of the absence of a police force. Riemstagrad II's national animal is the Agapornis, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Heavy Metal.

Riemstagrad II is ranked 6,106^th in the world and 279^th in Lazarus for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 58.24 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.