The State of La Riojania is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Célaga with an iron fist, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, pith helmet sales, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 4.348 billion Riojanos are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vinchina. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 55.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Riojano economy, worth 666 trillion Peso Riojanoes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 153,377 Peso Riojanoes, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 646,697 per year while the poor average 23,570, a ratio of 27.4 to 1.

Nobody draws smiley faces on receipts anymore, prime commercial land is being swamped with archaeological teams, biotech companies are fined if their jumbled genetic sequences look too familiar, and prisoners regularly escape detention posing as scarecrows. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. La Riojania's national animal is the Capybara, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Evangelism.

La Riojania is ranked 23,496^th in the world and 49^th in Anteria for Highest Food Quality, scoring 105.99 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.