The Armed Republic of Texan Rhodesia is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by MacMerritt with an iron fist, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, smutty television, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 11.463 billion Rhodesians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government is effectively ruled by the Department of Defense, with Administration also on the agenda, while Spirituality and International Aid are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Salisbury. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 48.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Texan Rhodesian economy, worth a remarkable 2,677 trillion Rhodies a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Retail. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 233,575 Rhodies, with the richest citizens earning 8.8 times as much as the poorest.

The military recognizes no difference between male and female soldiers, colonists who were promised new lands find only war-torn devastation, thieves find battery shops juicier targets than banks, and protesters are up in arms over new nuclear power stations. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Texan Rhodesia's national animal is the Rhodesian Ridgeback, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Nuffle.

Texan Rhodesia is ranked 59,882^nd in the world and 6^th in Dixie for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 3,276.4 on the Gilded Widget Scale.