The Free Land of Raqalia is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Raq Riobren with a fair hand, and notable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, smutty television, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 13.167 billion Raqalians 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, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Riobrenna. The average income tax rate is 96.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Raqalian economy, worth a remarkable 1,879 trillion florins 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 Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 142,718 florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government supplies ragtag bands of resistance fighters in exchange for vague promises of future payment, when their backs are against the walls Raqalians look out for gay men, the government regularly publishes lengthy reports on its own excessive recordkeeping, and the media seems excessively interested in what Raq Riobren is wearing this season. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Raqalia's national animal is the sheep, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Raqalia is ranked 1,691^st in the world and 81^st in Balder for Most Pacifist, with 191.42 cheeks turned per day.