The Commonwealth of Rya Desh is a massive, genial nation, notable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.095 billion Rya Deshians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Byzantium. The average income tax rate is 76.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Rya Deshian economy, worth 56.8 trillion pounds 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 Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 51,893 pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Every week is blindness awareness week, explosive diarrhoea is not just a colorful phrase, prisoners can't do number twos without their "toilet buddy" present, and doctors prescribe videos of political debates to patients with insomnia. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rya Desh's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Rya Desh is ranked 13,334^th in the world and 255^th in Europe for Best Weather, with 188 Meters Of Sunlight.