The Republic of Ravenstovia is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its frequent executions, enslaved workforce, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 469 million Ravenstovians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ravenstov. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 49.9%.

The Ravenstovian economy, worth 27.2 trillion Credits 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, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Furniture Restoration. 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 57,998 Credits, with the richest citizens earning 8.5 times as much as the poorest.

All telephone traffic is monitored for 'national security reasons', tech-mad citizens think that the laser-powered bread-slicer uPhone App is the coolest thing since sliced bread, frequent fliers are obliged to submit to invasive security procedures by government security, and members of the government all have oddly similar anecdotes about their childhoods. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ravenstovia's national animal is the eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Ravenstovia is ranked 130,252^nd in the world and 185^th in Sophia for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry, scoring 2,879.99 on the Tasmanian Pulp Environmental Export Index.