The Empire of Rugelia is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Samael Seraphis with an even hand, and renowned for its national health service, complete lack of prisons, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 28.28 billion Rugelians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lygeria. The income tax rate is 100%.

The enormous but underdeveloped Rugelian economy, worth a remarkable 4,328 trillion Krunaris a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 153,045 Krunaris, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The television adaptation of Jennifer Government is the most popular program in the nation, engineers ask liberal arts majors "Do you want fries with that?", a division of tanks navigating "as the crow flies" has driven into a ravine, and prices for nearly everything reach all-time highs as business tax breaks are discontinued. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rugelia's national animal is the White Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Rugelia is ranked 336^th in the world and 1^st in Greater AltHistoria for Lowest Crime Rates, with 217.32 law-abiding acts per hour.