The Holy Empire of Ray Tral is a huge, efficient nation, notable for its avant-garde cinema, keen interest in outer space, and daily referendums. The compassionate, democratic population of 626 million Ray Tralians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 34.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Ray Tralian economy, worth 60.9 trillion Traleses a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 97,238 Traleses, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Voting district maps are said to resemble a tyrannosaurus eating the capital, there's more hugging than talking in most talk shows, anything is permissible when wearing latex gloves, and the education system is being cleansed of all corporate influence. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Ray Tral's national animal is the Ray Tralian Bullet Frog, which can occasionally be seen avoiding garbage in the nation's murky oceans.

Ray Tral is ranked 29,566^th in the world and 176^th in Europe for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 5,488.49 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.