The Republic of Raul48 is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its public floggings, zero percent divorce rate, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 7.804 billion Raul48ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 49.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Raul48ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,799 trillion bitcoins 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Uranium Mining. 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 amazing 230,648 bitcoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Leader spends weekends doing the laundry of foreign leaders, Dogman-branded weapons are all the rage in the militaristic comic-book community, death row inmates cower in fear at the phrase "one-year anniversary", and the first sword of Raul48 does not run. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Raul48's national animal is the lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Raul48 is ranked 16,433^rd in the world and 413^th in the Rejected Realms for Lowest Crime Rates, with 92.8 law-abiding acts per hour.