The Galactic Empire of Riptaria is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by general degaras with an iron fist, and notable for its compulsory military service, pith helmet sales, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 14.057 billion Riptarians 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, well-organized government is effectively ruled by the Department of Defense, although Law & Order is also considered important, while Social Policy and International Aid are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of riptaria city. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Riptarian economy, worth a remarkable 9,671 trillion ripion doller and pound ripions a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is a breathtaking 688,002 ripion doller and pound ripions, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Foreigners are treated with great suspicion, the nation's soldiers sleep four to a bed in order to use space economically, suppression of pro-democracy protests is a daily occurrence, and pedants defending general degaras observe that psychopaths and sociopaths aren't exactly the same thing. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Riptaria's national animal is the slave, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Atheism.

Riptaria is ranked 8,651^st in the world and 4^th in The United Federations for Most Authoritarian, with 5,220.23 milliStalins.