The Republic of Ream Island is a titanic, efficient nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, daily referendums, and disturbing lack of elderly people. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 11.693 billion Ream Islandians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 66.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ream Islandian economy, worth a remarkable 1,567 trillion Euros a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 134,061 Euros, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Activists sabotage clean energy in the name of the environment, college students make ends meet by selling their kidneys, there's a bright dawn ahead for Ream Island, and drill sergeants yell in the ears of bespectacled nerds in cybermilitary "reboot camps". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ream Island's national animal is the Sand Shark, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Ream Island is ranked 297,347^th in the world and 528^th in The grimy backyard of Bigej for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -8.69 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.