The Imperial Reich of Kilkvo is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Aaron Courier with an even hand, and renowned for its public floggings, triple-decker prams, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 22.922 billion Kilkvoans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Volangrad. The average income tax rate is 30.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Kilkvoan economy, worth a remarkable 7,961 trillion Marks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 347,349 Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The "swords to plowshares" policy has created a generation of farmers that can kill a yak from 200 yards away, political parties are banned from advertising and receiving private donations, tax assessment offices double as polling stations, and matryoshka dolls resembling nested Death Stars are commonly sold. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kilkvo's national animal is the Imperial Griffon Vulture, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Christianity.

Kilkvo is ranked 326,830^th in the world and 3,438^th in the Pacific for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry, scoring -15.62 on the Tasmanian Pulp Environmental Export Index.