The Kingdom of Riano is a very large, orderly nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, sprawling nuclear power plants, and complete lack of public education. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 108 million Rianoans enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The minute, liberal, pro-business government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Defense, Spirituality, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 3.8%.

The strong Rianoan economy, worth 7.12 trillion Riabucks a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Furniture Restoration, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 65,911 Riabucks, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 349,128 per year while the poor average 6,591, a ratio of 53.0 to 1.

'The Anti-Government Hour' is a popular programme on many of Riano's radio stations, copyright laws have been abolished, the streets are increasingly clogged with poverty-stricken beggars, and most ambassadors from Riano retire only a few years after being appointed. Crime is a major problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Riano's national animal is the Jaguar, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Riano is ranked 110,979^th in the world and 312^th in Concord for Highest Food Quality, scoring 21.1 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.