The Madhite Kingdom of Rastarda is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Count Slee of Zastarda with an iron fist, and remarkable for its public floggings, lack of airports, and daily referendums. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 19.665 billion Rastamons 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 government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Ratzville. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 91.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Rastardan economy, worth a remarkable 4,689 trillion Rastamarks a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 238,470 Rastamarks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 826,613 per year while the poor average 50,225, a ratio of 16.5 to 1.

The government is buying children's books by the thousands, new pests have been imported into Rastarda, the inside lane of every highway is for parked vehicles only, and the newest shade developed by Rastarda's dye industry has been dubbed 'Agent Orange'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rastarda's national animal is the Speckled Jaybird, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is That Old Time Religion.

Rastarda is ranked 9,570^th in the world and 4^th in Axixican Confederation for Lowest Crime Rates, with 101.89 law-abiding acts per hour.