The Empire of RX-88 is a massive, safe nation, ruled by The Ultimate Emperor with an iron fist, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, humorless population of 1.691 billion RX-88ians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of RXstrat. The average income tax rate is 91.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient RX-88ian economy, worth 231 trillion Electrocredits a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 136,944 Electrocredits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Only fully-fledged members of MENSA are allowed to vote, military spending is on the increase, pet owners must make a payment if their charges leave a deposit, and knitters are arrested for carrying needles in their bags. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. RX-88's national animal is the Mythosaur, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is None.

RX-88 is ranked 124,359^th in the world and 3,975^th in the West Pacific for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring 905.06 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.