The Black Knights of Tiber and Rione is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Mad Max with an iron fist, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, soft-spoken computers, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, cynical, humorless population of 8.656 billion Tiber and Rioneans 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yosodogville. The average income tax rate is 91.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Tiber and Rionean economy, worth a remarkable 1,847 trillion Yosocoins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 213,441 Yosocoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Arbitration is mightier than the sword, worried-looking neonatal nurses are being deployed in place of SWAT teams during dangerous drug busts, birth rates have hit an all-time low, and the nation is known abroad mostly for its Parliamentary antics. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tiber and Rione's national animal is the Yoso dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Liliarchism.

Tiber and Rione is ranked 57,166^th in the world and 175^th in Lily for Largest Populations, with 8.66 billion capita.