The Wretched Red Regime of Rust and Ruination is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Lady Alruinea of House Rust with an iron fist, and remarkable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, hatred of cheese, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.121 billion hopeless thralls 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Despairuin. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 93.3%.

The large but sluggish Rust and Ruinationian economy, worth 131 trillion rusty metal scraps 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, extremely specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing. 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 62,118 rusty metal scraps, with the richest citizens earning 5.7 times as much as the poorest.

The police crack down on tax evaders without mercy, citizens who fail to follow the official national religion are executed, baseball caps are the new fashion trend, and women who can do math in their head are burned for witchcraft. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Rust and Ruination's national animal is the Chaos Raven, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Bones to Ashes and Rust to Dust.

Rust and Ruination is ranked 118,016^th in the world and 2,230^th in the Rejected Realms for Highest Average Incomes, with 62,118.56 Standard Monetary Units.