The Republic of Rtelnameessea is a colossal, cultured nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, parental licensing program, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.783 billion Rtelnameesseans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 78.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Rtelnameessean economy, worth 797 trillion Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 117,553 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Healthcare workers are flummoxed over the spike in foreign tourists with sudden-onset heart disease, the government has cut its subsidies for all special interest groups, history textbook pages are used as impromptu tissues by distraught students, and historic buildings are being demolished to allow for road-widening in the city centre. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rtelnameessea's national animal is the Python, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Rtelnameessea is ranked 13,449^th in the world and 2,133^rd in Two for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 8,619.26 on the Gilded Widget Scale.