The Republic of Runegeist is a gargantuan, efficient nation, renowned for its infamous sell-swords, ban on automobiles, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, humorless population of 15.004 billion Runegeistians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rome. The average income tax rate is 98.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Runegeistian economy, worth a remarkable 2,294 trillion denarii 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 led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 152,916 denarii, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Prisoners have been known to host cooking and home décor television shows, dog breeding has been banned in accordance with recent animal experimentation laws, the government has instituted 'traveller reservations' across the country, and five-year-olds who refuse to line up on command get gold stars. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Runegeist's national animal is the eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Runegeist is ranked 13,433^rd in the world and 36^th in New Western Empire for Most Secular, with 83.78 Atheism Rate.