The Empire of Rhetiaa is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Her Imperial Majesty Empress Odet with an iron fist, and remarkable for its prohibition of alcohol, ban on automobiles, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 13.428 billion Rhetiaans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Panem. The average income tax rate is 94.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Rhetiaan economy, worth a remarkable 2,200 trillion Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 163,855 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Glamping Rhetiaans won't sleep in a tent that doesn't include a Jacuzzi, the nation has opened its arms to an influx of refugees, houses and businesses are bulldozed to make way for ever-expanding cemeteries, and back-alley holistic doctors carry crystals in long trench coats. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rhetiaa's national animal is the Phoenix, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is The Church of Rhetiaa.

Rhetiaa is ranked 7,902^nd in the world and 186^th in the South Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 457.04 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.