The Federal Republic of Ripsylvania is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Prime Minister Gustavus with an even hand, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, soft-spoken computers, and smutty television. The compassionate population of 14.061 billion Ripsylvanians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Breitenfeld. The average income tax rate is 91.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ripsylvanian economy, worth a remarkable 1,784 trillion scritches 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 126,932 scritches, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Diplomats agree to the terms and conditions of peace treaties without reading them, the government spends billions to retrieve millions worth of asteroid gold, reflex hammers and sickle cell research are uniform comrades, and deceased politicians spam the public with thousands of AI-generated voicemails. Crime is totally unknown. Ripsylvania's national animal is the Wooly Scragglemuffin, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ripsylvania is ranked 4,504^th in the world and 111^th in The East Pacific for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 8,685.15 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.