The Defender of Kivu 10 is a massive, efficient nation, notable for its frequent executions, compulsory vegetarianism, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.362 billion Kivu 10ians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 52.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Kivu 10ian economy, worth 519 trillion rubles a year, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Soda Sales, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 118,990 rubles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

Cassocked priests and choirboys believe that what happens behind closed doors stays behind closed doors, former school buses now regularly shuttle kids to the nearest shopping centers to work, dog breeding has been banned in accordance with recent animal experimentation laws, and the Department of Health is snowed under by requests for crisper ciabatta and tenderer tagliatelle. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kivu 10's national animal is the emu, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Kivu 10 is ranked 313,377^th in the world and 6^th in Religionica for Most Pacifist, with 5.86 cheeks turned per day.