The Democratic Republic of Rushenberg is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by John Rauschenberger with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, soft-spoken computers, and smutty television. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 8.644 billion Rushenbergs enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rausch City. The average income tax rate is 99.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Rushenbergian economy, worth a remarkable 2,356 trillion pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 272,619 pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Orphans would rather live their life of luxury than be adopted by prospective parents, older citizens lament over the loss of law and order, large-girthed charity workers assign themselves healthy wages for their work with starving children, and John Rauschenberger lives life on the open road - complete with groupies. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rushenberg's national animal is the pig, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Rushenberg is ranked 1,008^th in the world and 2^nd in Thaecia for Lowest Crime Rates, with 171.24 law-abiding acts per hour.