The People's Republic of Rad Asia is a huge, safe nation, ruled by Powerless Queen Jenna with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, soft-spoken computers, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 957 million Rad Asians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Panda City. The average income tax rate is 82.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Rad Asian economy, worth 85.0 trillion Marks 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Basket Weaving. Average income is 88,846 Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation is regarded as a paragon of democracy, popular cartoon characters frequently appear in government-sponsored PSAs reminding students to say no to drugs, television characters who ask how someone's doing are charged with harassment, and museums have more touchscreens on display than artifacts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Rad Asia's national animal is the panda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Rad Asia is ranked 18,732^nd in the world and 547^th in the South Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 253.28 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.