The People's Republic of Rathanur is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Halrax with a fair hand, and renowned for its state-planned economy, anti-smoking policies, and lack of airports. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 9.923 billion Rathanurians 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, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rathano. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Rathanurian economy, worth a remarkable 2,422 trillion antarins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 244,106 antarins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Claims of miracles are met with calls to eradicate religion as superstitious nonsense, major cities shut down as their local sports team takes to the field every day, teenagers performing appendectomies on their friends has become a popular schoolyard prank, and foreign casinos have trouble paying fans who bet on the triumph of the Rathano Cockatrices against long odds. Crime is totally unknown. Rathanur's national animal is the cockatrice, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Humanism.

Rathanur is ranked 313,466^th in the world and 301^st in Karma for Most Patriotic, with 0.4 flags saluted per person per day.