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The Restored First Republic of Ridnez is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Roberto Giannone with an even hand, and renowned for its unlimited-speed roads, complete lack of prisons, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 8.947 billion Ridnezites enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The medium-sized, corrupt, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Magnifico. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 69.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Ridnezite economy, worth a remarkable 2,233 trillion New England INC pounds a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Retail, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an amazing 249,591 New England INC pounds, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 773,040 per year while the poor average 62,087, a ratio of 12.5 to 1.

A girl's success in life is often linked to her performance in beauty pageants, environmental protestors are being rounded up and taken away in sinister black vans as a massive land development campaign gets underway, the Ridnezite Intelligence Agency relies on internet search engines to know what is happening overseas, and citizens seem fixated on 105m x 45m rectangles. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ridnez's national animal is the eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Ridnez is ranked 12,169^th in the world and 33^rd in Commonwealth of Sovereign States for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 10,094.34 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.