The Borderlands of Rei is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its ritual sacrifices, free-roaming dinosaurs, and prohibition of alcohol. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 9.3 billion Reians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 72.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Reian economy, worth 928 trillion credits a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 99,891 credits, with the richest citizens earning 6.8 times as much as the poorest.

White chocolate is neither chocolate nor food, yoga studios are being converted into yoga research labs, the government has declared that sharing is uncaring, and clerics are taught that silence is golden and duct tape is silver. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rei's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Rei is ranked 75,913^th in the world and 1^st in Abraxas for Largest Populations, with 9.30 billion capita.