The Cow Sanctuary of Rare Steakman Medium is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Beefy Steakman with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, prohibition of alcohol, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 21.501 billion Rare Steakman Mediumians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Spirituality, Industry, and Public Transport are also considered important. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Beef Jerky. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 44.1%.

The powerhouse Rare Steakman Mediumian economy, worth a remarkable 2,673 trillion Steaks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Gambling. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 124,341 Steaks, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 549,677 per year while the poor average 17,596, a ratio of 31.2 to 1.

An underground movement of cigarette smokers has sprung up in response to a government ban, an eye for an eye leaves Rare Steakman Medium blind, anti-vaxxers claim that injected children are prone to psychotic breaks when they see the 'Queen of Diamonds' playing card, and unpackaged foodstuffs rot on store shelves. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Rare Steakman Medium's national animal is the Cow, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Steakism.

Rare Steakman Medium is ranked 250,612^th in the world and 76^th in The Invaders for Highest Poor Incomes, with 17,596.15 Standard Monetary Units.