The Republic of Kivu 34 is a massive, efficient nation, notable for its frequent executions, enslaved workforce, and aversion to nipples. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 2.591 billion Kivu 34ians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 61.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Kivu 34ian economy, worth 224 trillion florins 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, quite specialized black market in Retail, Tourism, Pizza Delivery, and Uranium Mining. 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 86,544 florins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Male med students learning female anatomy do so with their eyes tightly closed, women don't report crimes to the emergency services for fear of being arrested, tombstones are ten feet high to accommodate the names of inhabitants, and executions often take hours as amateurs attempt to find veins. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kivu 34's national animal is the cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Kivu 34 is ranked 66,472^nd in the world and 53^rd in A Taco Paradise for Most Patriotic, with 21.19 flags saluted per person per day.