The Surreal Salad Days of RKD is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Queen Jelf VII with an iron fist, and notable for its remarkably easy parental licensing program, ban on automobiles, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.877 billion carcinogens are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt morass — juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Heavenly Kitchen Table. The average income tax rate is 73.6%.

The thriving carcinogenic economy, worth 86.7 trillion raffle tickets a year, is extremely specialized and solely comprised of the Retail industry. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is 46,202 raffle tickets, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.1 times as much as the poorest.

Raindances intended to summon storms instead attract tourists, actively encouraging climate change is helping reduce winter fuel costs, the navy is chrome-plating its battleships to prevent rust, and Queen Jelf VII can often be found attempting to coax random citizens' cats down from trees. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. RKD's national animal is the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Orthodox Yodlism.

RKD is ranked 174,290^th in the world and 10^th in Quiet Cottage on the Edge of the Cosmos for Most Primitive, scoring -61.4 on the Scary Big Number Scale.