The Holy Empire of Ray Tral is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its daily referendums, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 250 million Ray Tralians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. The average income tax rate is 33.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Ray Tralian economy, worth 24.2 trillion Traleses a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 96,939 Traleses, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Former televangelists are often seen begging skateboarders for donations, funeral directors are frequently looking at their watches during funerals, deceased politicians spam the public with thousands of AI-generated voicemails, and many in Ray Tral are born in the purple. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ray Tral's national animal is the Ray Tralian Bullet Frog, which can occasionally be seen avoiding garbage in the nation's murky oceans.

Ray Tral is ranked 239,975^th in the world and 1,219^th in Europe for Most Beautiful Environments, with 410.71 pounds of wildlife per square mile.