The People's Republic of Rantopia is a massive, safe nation, ruled by The Fair Rantopian Assembly with an even hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, punitive income tax rates, and compulsory gun ownership. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.393 billion Rantopians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cortopiz. The average income tax rate is 85.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Rantopian economy, worth 125 trillion Rans 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Basket Weaving, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 89,959 Rans, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation sends criminals home to think about what they did, busy commuters no longer hear the cries of "I want some more!" on the nation's streets, the nation wears its high incidence of chromosomal diseases as a badge of pride, and politicians are often found scavenging bins at night to supplement their income. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rantopia's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Rantopia is ranked 277,050^th in the world and 355^th in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Black Market, with 78.0 billion Standard Monetary Units.