The Most Serene Republic of Rayo de Sol is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Bernard SUNders with an even hand, and renowned for its national health service, absence of drug laws, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, cheerful population of 29.332 billion Rayo de Solians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The medium-sized, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sol City. The average income tax rate is 77.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Rayo de Solian economy, worth a remarkable 5,481 trillion lightbulbs a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 186,888 lightbulbs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People are more interested in gossip about the private lives of politicians than their policies, trained plumber-burglars will clean out your blocked pipes and your jewellery boxes, rioting during the nation's hosting of ORDER caused one million lightbulbs of property damage, and savvy students quote paywalled research knowing that university lecturers can't afford to check the citations. Crime is totally unknown. Rayo de Sol's national animal is the sun tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Rayo de Sol is ranked 100,062^nd in the world and 156^th in Lone Wolves United for Lowest Crime Rates, with 65.98 law-abiding acts per hour.