The Democratic Republic of Ralminster is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its compulsory vegetarianism, state-planned economy, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 1.403 billion Ralminsterians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 94.3%.

The very strong Ralminsterian economy, worth 110 trillion Euros a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Tourism industry. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is 78,699 Euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government defends a woman's right to choose, universities spend millions removing ivy from their walls to avoid accusations of elitism, torture is illegal, and builders across Ralminster are blocked up with orders for new public loos. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ralminster's national animal is the Wren, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ralminster is ranked 316,588^th in the world and 98^th in Dystopian Utopia for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -9.59 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.