The Humanist Geniocracy of Ryfin is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Barahir with a fair hand, and remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, pith helmet sales, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The democratic, cheerful population of 22.337 billion Edain are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal government prioritizes Education, with Industry, Environment, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Spirituality is ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ladros. The average income tax rate is 93.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Edain economy, worth a remarkable 3,962 trillion Silmarils a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 177,401 Silmarils, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The freedom to be free is always just out of reach, politicians can be condescending (which by the way means "showing an attitude of patronising superiority"), the nation's most "productive" diamond mine hasn't been operational for seven months, and wealthy pranksters dump refuse on unsuspecting citizens from up high. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ryfin's national animal is the Wolf Hound, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ryfin is ranked 4,908^th in the world and 4^th in Middle Earth for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 11,182.09 on the Gilded Widget Scale.