The Commonwealth of Requand is a massive, genial nation, notable for its complete lack of prisons, state-planned economy, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 4.479 billion Requans 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, Welfare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Phenna. The average income tax rate is 99.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Requan economy, worth 890 trillion Fentoes 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 198,917 Fentoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Scoutmasters debate whether luxury log cabins defeat the purpose of camping, bemused citizens are encouraged to sing foreign-language hymns of religions they have never heard of, dynamite sales and concert audiences are booming, and any citizen who cries is immediately assigned a psychiatrist. Crime is totally unknown. Requand's national animal is the Butterfly, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Requand is ranked 7,975^th in the world and 30^th in Democratic Socialist Assembly for Most Efficient Economies, scoring 100 on the Krugman-Greenspan Business Outlook Index.