The Second Interstellar Imperium of New Raffica is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Supreme Chancellor Marcelo Fontelli with an iron fist, and notable for its keen interest in outer space, hatred of cheese, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 27.949 billion New Rafficians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zeninberg. The average income tax rate is 98.2%.

The frighteningly efficient New Raffician economy, worth a remarkable 4,889 trillion New Raffician Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 174,936 New Raffician Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Zeninberg has restaurants serving every meat from aardvark to zebra, candidates make campaign speeches at the funerals of former rivals, politicians put their fingers in their ears and sing "la la la la" when walking past lobbyists, and sleep-deprived officials are known to collapse after late night revision for their examinations. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Raffica's national animal is the Cockatiel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is non-existent.

New Raffica is ranked 310,698^th in the world and 6^th in Icarus for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -23.89 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.