The Most Serene Republic of RiverLorn is a colossal, safe nation, renowned for its anti-smoking policies, national health service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 5.207 billion RiverLornians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 76.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped RiverLornian economy, worth 138 trillion Rings a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 26,571 Rings, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Nerds everywhere are rejoicing as they are reunited with their computers, depression sinks in after each election when voters realize they are stuck with these people for years, the nation's navy has been named the scourge of the seven thousand seas, and truncheon-mounted cameras record the beating of criminals in dynamic HD detail. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. RiverLorn's national animal is the Elk, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

RiverLorn is ranked 29,142^nd in the world and 1,555^th in Balder for Safest, scoring 109.6 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.