The Principality of Reikstlan is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Prince Valdemar II with an iron fist, and renowned for its frequent executions, public floggings, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 9.943 billion Reikstlanters are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Reiksburg. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 68.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Reikstlanian economy, worth 867 trillion Guntzels a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 87,207 Guntzels, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 257,391 per year while the poor average 23,236, a ratio of 11.1 to 1.

Professionals are ready to retire by the time they receive permission to use their credentials, increasing numbers of children in Reikstlan have different eye and hair color to their supposed fathers, tax-payers are funding ever more extravagant movie projects, and decaying farm hamlets have twice the representation of major urban areas. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Reikstlan's national animal is the Lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Reikstlanter Evangelical Church.

Reikstlan is ranked 10,628^th in the world and 368^th in Balder for Fattest Citizens, with 17.48 Obesity Rate.