The Free Land of Ritelia is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and digital currency. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 741 million Ritelians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded, pro-business, outspoken individuals keep a keen eye out for any attempt to organize such a thing, and ruthlessly crush it. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Arault. Income tax is unheard of.

The very strong Ritelian economy, worth 40.5 trillion Brovins a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Automobile Manufacturing, and Soda Sales. Average income is 54,623 Brovins, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 228,598 per year while the poor average 8,502, a ratio of 26.9 to 1.

Ritelia has designated Arault as its capital city, citizens drive tank-like vehicles with mounted machine guns, thousands of children die every day from easily curable illnesses, and mandatory electronic currency is a boon for credit card companies and government surveillance. Crime is a serious problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Ritelia's national animal is the cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Ritelia is ranked 267,365^th in the world and 1,295^th in Europe for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -8.94 on the Clooney Contribution Index.