The Free Land of Upper Ryu Lorty is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Mister Leader with an even hand, and renowned for its ban on automobiles, compulsory military service, and frequent executions. The devout population of 1.14 billion Upper Ryu-Lortyians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Loryuer. The average income tax rate is 58.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Upper Ryu Lortyian economy, worth 44.1 trillion octothorpes a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Arms Manufacturing, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 38,708 octothorpes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The military refers to helpless combatants offering surrender as "sitting ducks", foreign nations kill migratory animals at random in the hope that Upper Ryu Lorty will pay them to stop, Lady Justice has swapped her blindfold for steel-capped boots, and residents of new housing subdivisions complain about the total absence of supermarkets and restaurants. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Upper Ryu Lorty's national animal is the thylacine, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Ryuanism.

Upper Ryu Lorty is ranked 51,019^th in the world and 1,114^th in the South Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 74.01 law-abiding acts per hour.