The Republic of Raul18 is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its prohibition of alcohol, ritual sacrifices, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 9.422 billion Raul18ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 43.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Raul18ian economy, worth a remarkable 2,218 trillion marks a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 235,436 marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

No suburban lawn is complete without barbed wire and landmines, plain-clothes police officers follow Dàguó tourists everywhere they go, teenagers claim that morning paper rounds are performance art, and whenever pilots have to bail out the government bails out their company. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Raul18's national animal is the bison, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Raul18 is ranked 181,717^th in the world and 8,424^th in Lazarus for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 999.8 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.