The People's Republic of Raro del Sur is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its otherworldly petting zoo, state-planned economy, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 265 million Rareños 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 Education, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bagong Bonifacio. The average income tax rate is 76.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Rareño economy, worth 15.3 trillion Pesos 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 Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Trout Farming. Average income is 57,891 Pesos, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It's not just poseurs who wear oversized sound-cancelling headphones as they walk the city streets, pharmacists increasingly claim they are morally obligated to take long lunches, the words 'private' and 'enterprise' must never appear in the same sentence, and gift hampers filled with delicious beef jerky are sent to newly communist nations. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Raro del Sur's national animal is the Stag, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Raro del Sur is ranked 280,660^th in the world and 479^th in The Communist Bloc for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 13,488.7 Standard Monetary Units.