The Black Knights of Tiber and Rione is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Mad Max with an even hand, and renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, soft-spoken computers, and state-planned economy. The compassionate population of 7.341 billion Tiber and Rioneans 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yosodogville. The average income tax rate is 90.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Tiber and Rionean economy, worth a remarkable 1,509 trillion Yosocoins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 205,585 Yosocoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Advertisements for jobs in the sciences run in fashion magazines, nature magazines featuring stick insects on their covers are sometimes mistaken for fashion magazines, children need to wear helmets and safety harnesses before mounting a carousel horse, and shanty towns are forming in the suburbs of major cities. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tiber and Rione's national animal is the Yoso Dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Liliarchism.

Tiber and Rione is ranked 27,324^th in the world and 140^th in Lily for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 5,309.33 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.