The 人民民主专政 of Rakhalia is a massive, safe nation, ruled by 毛泽东 with a fair hand, and renowned for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic population of 2.457 billion Rakhalians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Leningrad. The average income tax rate is 69.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Rakhalian economy, worth 16.8 trillion Rubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Tourism, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 6,821 Rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Rakhalia has designated Leningrad as its capital city, even the most lowly council pen-pusher has the same political power as a senior minister, and the government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rakhalia's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is silly goofs.

Rakhalia is ranked 73,575^th in the world and 1^st in Infinity Train for Smartest Citizens, with 37.89 quips per hour.