The Federated State of Rainengrad is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Comrade Kegelkop with a fair hand, and renowned for its smutty television, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, cheerful population of 21.963 billion Rainengradians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Faraberline. The average income tax rate is 96.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Rainengradian economy, worth a remarkable 8,979 trillion Lexells a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. Average income is an amazing 408,831 Lexells, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Deli patrons examine their roast beef for undetonated explosives, a popular artist is claiming that a raw steak with a dog turd on it is a portrait of Comrade Kegelkop, enemy navies sail within bombardment range of major coastal cities with impunity, and former nobles are being issued new identities in the wake of the end of serfdom. Crime is totally unknown. Rainengrad's national animal is the soltegu, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Zonneregenisme.

Rainengrad is ranked 1,951^st in the world and 79^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 268 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.