The New Dawn of Rhaza is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Rhaza with an even hand, and notable for its prohibition of alcohol, zero percent divorce rate, and public floggings. The quiet, industrious population of 17.552 billion Rhazans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Perdition. The average income tax rate is 14.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Rhazan economy, worth 887 trillion Lights a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 50,572 Lights, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Teenagers claim that morning paper rounds are performance art, rural communities are all but disenfranchised as politicians focus all their attention on winning the deciding urban votes, divorce is illegal, and a rolling news ticker tape of disclaimers runs across the bottom of the screen on all TV shows. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Rhaza's national animal is the Sphinx, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Rhaza is ranked 128,326^th in the world and 299^th in the Plains of Perdition for Most Patriotic, with 13.76 flags saluted per person per day.