The Empire of Rhinocera is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Supreme Consul Tiberius with an iron fist, and renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, unlimited-speed roads, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 23.633 billion Rhinocerans are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Crete. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 70.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Rhinoceran economy, worth a remarkable 6,455 trillion dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 273,161 dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 958,453 per year while the poor average 56,474, a ratio of 17.0 to 1.

Children who display even minimal sporting aptitude are immediately assigned a personal trainer, Calvinball players are lost for days as they wander the vast halls of their new academies, only the richest get to see out of their windows, and the "give and take" of international diplomacy often happens at gunpoint. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rhinocera's national animal is the rhinoceros, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Rhinocera is ranked 4,766^th in the world and 1^st in Panessos for Highest Average Incomes, with 273,161.6 Standard Monetary Units.