The Free Land of Ruhrrheinia is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 223 million Ruhrrheiners enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 70.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Ruhrrheinisch economy, worth 7.50 trillion volksmarks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 33,626 volksmarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Newspapers and TV broadcasters are given a list of 'acceptable words', local government operates tolls on every village road, the government only invests in infrastructure after a natural disaster, and a firework a day does not in fact keep the doctor away. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ruhrrheinia's national animal is the wildcat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ruhrrheinia is ranked 102,251^st in the world and 136^th in Refugia for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring zero on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.