The Sunset on the River Nile of Pluvie is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Malcolm with an even hand, and notable for its infamous sell-swords, avant-garde cinema, and daily referendums. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 2.534 billion Pluvians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mattar. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 11.5%.

The all-consuming Pluviean economy, worth 178 trillion Sun-tokens a year, is quite specialized and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Soda Sales, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is 70,252 Sun-tokens, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 394,285 per year while the poor average 6,198, a ratio of 63.6 to 1.

No one is worried about government policies any more, parents often ask to see a credit report before lending money to their own children, male friends are often accompanied by a female relative in order to prove their 'straightness', and voters must frequently select what they view as the lesser of two evils on the ballot. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Pluvie's national animal is the Fennec Fox, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Love.

Pluvie is ranked 71^st in the world and 1^st in Refugia for Most Primitive, scoring 679.99 on the Scary Big Number Scale.