The State of Rudlin is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by the Governor with a fair hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, smutty television, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 31.244 billion Rudlinians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Industry, with Education also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Environment aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.1%.

The very strong Rudlinian economy, worth a remarkable 1,340 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is quite specialized and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Pizza Delivery, and Gambling. Average income is 42,893 betales, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 291,623 per year while the poor average 2,304, a ratio of 126 to 1.

The Governor has just been declared ruler of Rudlin in an international press conference, a major religion has been named as Rudlin's national religion, most governmental positions are filled by zealous nationalists, and political candidates are regularly blocked for minor convictions from their teenage years. Crime is a major problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Rudlin's national animal is the deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Rudlin is ranked 266,077^th in the world and 596^th in United States of America for Safest, scoring 12.68 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.