The Federation of Riklasia is a huge, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its pith helmet sales, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 620 million Riklasians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Eden. The average income tax rate is 70.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Riklasian economy, worth 13.0 trillion credits 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 mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 21,033 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Unwary hikers climbing the bluffs of Mount New Eden make great practice for foreign snipers, the country has been 'going shopping' by annexing nearby nations for their resources, citizens are told that foreigners are hungry ghosts who eat the flesh of the overly curious, and running away is an essential part of the elite forces' hand-to-hand training. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Riklasia's national animal is the whale, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Riklasia is ranked 278,660^th in the world and 10,701^st in Osiris for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 6,309.92 Standard Monetary Units.