The Medical Robotics of Rakeo Air Core 16 is a colossal, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service. The hard-nosed population of 5.938 billion Rakeo Air Core 16ians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 39.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Rakeo Air Core 16ian economy, worth 196 trillion deniers a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Retail, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 33,025 deniers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

A well-funded social safety net protects the unfortunate, the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, surveillance cameras are banned, and organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rakeo Air Core 16's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Rakeo Air Core 16 is ranked 143,949^th in the world and 108^th in Blue Chevron for Most Patriotic, with 13.5 flags saluted per person per day.