The Sapphic Queendom of Rathesia is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Comrade Bel with a fair hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, ban on automobiles, and smutty television. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 6.427 billion Rathesians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Belapol. The average income tax rate is 97.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Rathesian economy, worth a remarkable 1,091 trillion zines 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 169,820 zines, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Cars have been banned, R-SPAN viewership drops as MPs act their age, where there's a will there is usually a password manager, and sexually-starved male dinosaurs terrorise tourists during weekly breakouts from Mesozoic Park. Crime is totally unknown. Rathesia's national animal is the swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Sapphicism.

Rathesia is ranked 7,304^th in the world and 128^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Cultured, scoring 135 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.