The Sultanate of Rskalan is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Sultan Evander X Ubele with an iron fist, and renowned for its unlimited-speed roads, avant-garde cinema, and hatred of cheese. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 16.137 billion Rskalanians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 84.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Rskalanian economy, worth a remarkable 1,463 trillion Kolirs a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 90,722 Kolirs, with the richest citizens earning 5.4 times as much as the poorest.

Boom-and-bust cycles are being peddled as economically inevitable, books are often used as kindling, bungee jumpers rarely go splat, and civil servants spend most their time carrying out risk assessments for paper cuts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rskalan's national animal is the tortoise, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Violetism.

Rskalan is ranked 77,061^st in the world and 4,342^nd in Osiris for Highest Poor Incomes, with 36,359.36 Standard Monetary Units.