The Republic of Rare Swinies is a colossal, pleasant nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, complete lack of public education, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 8.386 billion Rare Swiniesians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 14.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Rare Swiniesian economy, worth 106 trillion marks 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 slick, highly efficient, highly specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Book Publishing. 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 12,723 marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

The armed forces are locked in an expensive and bloody war abroad to stamp out possible terrorists, primary candidates are replaced if they fail to compliment Leader's hair, the military perceives nations hit by natural disasters as "easy pickings", and a major religion has been named as Rare Swinies's national religion. Crime is a problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Rare Swinies's national animal is the wolf, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Rare Swinies is ranked 269,127^th in the world and 83^rd in Catholic for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -9.49 on the Clooney Contribution Index.