Location: Balder

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Interstellar Kingdom of Riltonia is a massive, economically powerful nation, ruled by Empress Morwen Nikali with an iron fist, and remarkable for its complete absence of social welfare. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 2.725 billion are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, pro-business government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Defence, with areas such as Social Equality and Social Welfare receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cartaria. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 50%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, followed by Information Technology and Retail.

Soylent products are an expensive commodity due to a lack of volunteers, the government regularly hires contractors to construct high rise apartments, thousands of former welfare recipients are in a revolutionary uproar as the rest of society is enjoying a hefty tax break, and the military is blowing up any threat to employment within the nation. Crime is a problem, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Riltonia's national animal is the Dragon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the Templar Coin.

Riltonia is ranked 122nd in Balder and 4,404th in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 6 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and