The Empire of Rhetiaa is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Her Imperial Majesty Empress Odet with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, prohibition of alcohol, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate, cynical population of 13.411 billion Rhetiaans 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 large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Panem. The average income tax rate is 94.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Rhetiaan economy, worth a remarkable 2,190 trillion Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 163,306 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Heart attack victims are thrown onto the rails, diplomatic fallout tends to be much more dangerous than radioactive fallout, the military recognizes no difference between male and female soldiers, and youth rights demonstrations often end in vicious snowball fights. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rhetiaa's national animal is the Phoenix, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is The Church of Rhetiaa.

Rhetiaa is ranked 10,224^th in the world and 295^th in the South Pacific for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 55.21 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.