The Dictatorship of Risalg is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Czar with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, barren, inhospitable landscape, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 2.098 billion Risalgians enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The relatively small, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sankt-Petersburg. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 15.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Risalgian economy, worth 258 trillion Arrobas a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 123,395 Arrobas, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 552,801 per year while the poor average 17,053, a ratio of 32.4 to 1.

A faint smell of body odour can be detected at several miles' distance from the National Science Park, agreeing to appear on TV is often the best way to access social care, the government subsidizes those who produce the worst results, and it turns out that trees grow on Arrobas. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control. Risalg's national animal is the Bull, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Atheism.

Risalg is ranked 63,792^nd in the world and 5^th in IADG for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 16,703.5 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.