The Piercing Thorns of Ruby Junimos is a mammoth, orderly nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, avant-garde cinema, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 7.853 billion Ruby Junimosians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 70.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Ruby Junimosian economy, worth 726 trillion baht a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 92,466 baht, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Oil executives can be seen reluctantly cleaning oil-soaked birds, business ambassadors offer bong tokes to foreign leaders, candlelit dinners are less romantic with a flickering LED, and the military is on a massive recruiting drive in advance of an invasion of Brasilistan. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ruby Junimos's national animal is the kiwi, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ruby Junimos is ranked 20,203^rd in the world and 1^st in North Paldaea for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 105.1 on the Bus Surprisal Index.