The Empire of Rayjam is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, state-planned economy, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed population of 210 million Rayjamians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 17.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Rayjamian economy, worth 12.0 trillion Imperial Rupees a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 56,953 Imperial Rupees, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Half of Rayjam's doctors can't speak the language, fresh food is a thing of the past due to onerous testing standards, citizens often ask "what has information technology ever done for us?", and the government is eagerly awaiting a multi-million Imperial Rupee payment from a deposed Smalltopian monarch. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rayjam's national animal is the Oriental Lion, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Rayjam is ranked 175,153^rd in the world and 1^st in The Ecuadorian Embassy for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 526.07 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.