The Republic of Rita Skeeter is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Rita Skeeter with an even hand, and notable for its zero percent divorce rate, rampant corporate plagiarism, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 7.91 billion Rita Skeeterians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Daily Prophet. The average income tax rate is 73.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Rita Skeeterian economy, worth 960 trillion Galleons 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 a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Woodchip Exports. 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 121,376 Galleons, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The golden rule is to never let an economic crisis go to waste, produce markets have tanked in pursuit of the perfect potato, blue bloods are welcome in Rita Skeeter, and brains have been removed from lists of best brain foods. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rita Skeeter's national animal is the Beetle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Journalism.

Rita Skeeter is ranked 100,100^th in the world and 122^nd in Shadow Realms for Most Cultured, scoring 66 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.