The Federal Republic of Maharanidesh is a massive, genial nation, remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, free-roaming dinosaurs, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 4.489 billion Ranidescans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sherkapanja. The average income tax rate is 98.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Ranidesque economy, worth 822 trillion rupees 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 significant contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 183,300 rupees, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

In musicals everybody's a little bit racist, tax-payers are funding ever more extravagant movie projects, protesters are up in arms over new nuclear power stations, and rumor has it that Leader has won three lotteries in a row. Crime is totally unknown. Maharanidesh's national animal is the collared dove, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Maharanidesh is ranked 288,761^st in the world and 3,672^nd in the West Pacific for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -19.85 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.