The Republic of Uvalor is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its parental licensing program, infamous sell-swords, and national health service. The compassionate, cynical population of 429 million Rijks are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lion County. The average income tax rate is 46.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Rijk economy, worth 42.8 trillion harris a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Trout Farming, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 99,825 harris, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Public shaming has become the favoured form of punishment, the nation's weary schoolchildren excel at sport but must count scores on their fingers, officials pull all-nighters to check immigrants for potential links to terrorists, and internet trolls are considered valiant supporters of the right to free speech. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Uvalor's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Uvalor is ranked 204,089^th in the world and 7,202^nd in the South Pacific for Most Extreme, scoring 8.15 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.