The Incorporated States of Rydania is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Angel Novella with a fair hand, and remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, rampant corporate plagiarism, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 25.472 billion Rydanians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rydania City. The average income tax rate is 99.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Rydanian economy, worth a remarkable 4,994 trillion novelloes a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 196,086 novelloes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Captains must wait until all rats are safe before jumping ship, hordes of tourists are ruining the environment, pandemics are over and done with by the time it takes to pass the nation's stringent border security, and citizens are remarkably well involved in the political process. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rydania's national animal is the raven, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Rydania is ranked 4,379^th in the world and 1^st in The Frozen Wastes for Lowest Crime Rates, with 119.74 law-abiding acts per hour.