The Republic of Raul34 is a colossal, orderly nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and ban on automobiles. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.816 billion Raul34ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 63.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Raul34ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,560 trillion dollars 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 black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. 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 an impressive 199,711 dollars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 858,290 per year while the poor average 29,697, a ratio of 28.9 to 1.

Citizens must inform the government each time they have a haircut, the recently unemployed can often be seen at the local homeless shelter, the overhead luggage compartment is often full, and there is a growing belief that consciousness is a simulated illusion within a computer-generated reality. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Raul34's national animal is the kangaroo, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Raul34 is ranked 30,146^th in the world and 2,014^th in Balder for Lowest Crime Rates, with 82.64 law-abiding acts per hour.