The Matriarchy of Ressic is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, ubiquitous missile silos, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 2.064 billion Ressicians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 65.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Ressician economy, worth 190 trillion dollars 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 a large, well-organized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Cheese Exports. 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 92,527 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A degree of self-hatred is vital for a future in politics, a mushroom a day keeps the sadness away, all recreational drugs are legal, and Ressic's free colleges struggle to maintain standards in the face of overwhelming demand. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ressic's national animal is the beaver, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ressic is ranked 57,533^rd in the world and 6^th in Colonia Apollonis for Lowest Crime Rates, with 74.55 law-abiding acts per hour.