The Misfortune of Vivilio is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Olek Marsh with an iron fist, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, frequent executions, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 3.164 billion Vivilioans 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 government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vivic. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 40.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Vivilioan economy, worth 397 trillion Rubieses a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized black market in Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 125,762 Rubieses, with the richest citizens earning 9.1 times as much as the poorest.

Even God cannot save you in Vivilio, burnt-out forty-foot-tall wicker men dot the countryside, the government is seen to favor traditionalist religions, and the term cold case has taken on a very literal meaning. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low. Vivilio's national animal is the Cardinal, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Olekanism.

Vivilio is ranked 257,529^th in the world and 246^th in The Union of Democratic States for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -7.52 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.