The Republic of Raphael Varane is a very large, safe nation, renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, compulsory military service, and otherworldly petting zoo. The compassionate, cynical population of 372 million Raphael Varaneans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 38.3%.

The strong Raphael Varanean economy, worth 27.3 trillion Gameses a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Furniture Restoration industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 73,275 Gameses, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 239,127 per year while the poor average 16,890, a ratio of 14.2 to 1.

Shelters struggle to keep up with the endless intake of stray animals, women who walk into the ladies' changing room are accused of being Peeping Toms, city workers have declared that rolling markets aren't good for business after all, and the nation's laws on image rights are amongst the strictest in the world. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Raphael Varane's national animal is the Player, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Raphael Varane is ranked 199,247^th in the world and 266^th in Edoca for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring zero on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.