The HAVEN't they learnt their lesson about trusting this circling shark of Mallorea and Riva is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Zakath with an iron fist, and notable for its pith helmet sales, suspicion of poets, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 20.215 billion Mallorea and Rivans enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The tiny, corrupt, liberal, pro-business, well-organized government is effectively ruled by the Department of Defense, with Industry and Law & Order also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Environment receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mal Zeth. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Mallorea and Rivan economy, worth a remarkable 4,459 trillion marks 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 Information Technology, Gambling, and Soda Sales. Average income is an amazing 220,599 marks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 662,789 per year while the poor average 57,314, a ratio of 11.6 to 1.

The Mallorea and Rivan war navy contains an oddly large number of luxury yachts and cruise liners, Zakath signs the laws but abides by none of them, Mallorea and Rivan police have to pay out of their own pockets for bulletproof vests, and disputed territories across The Joint Systems Alliance are being claimed by Mallorea and Rivan college students. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Mallorea and Riva's national animal is the narwhal, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Mallorea and Riva is ranked 15,353^rd in the world and 1^st in The Joint Systems Alliance for Largest Information Technology Sector, scoring 20,518.51 on the Fann-Boi Productivity Index.