The Terrine's Sweatshop of Riaan State is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by President Daj K Vatur with an even hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ban on automobiles, and compulsory military service. The devout population of 1.367 billion Riaans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Education, Spirituality, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Davsik. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 39.7%.

The Riaan economy, worth 66.4 trillion Dehvs a year, is led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Woodchip Exports, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 48,582 Dehvs, with the richest citizens earning 5.8 times as much as the poorest.

Foreigners with shady pasts are fleeing the country, minorities play dumb to get more welfare payments, satellite images show safe electoral constituencies in complete darkness, and fast-food chefs regularly win Health Innovation Awards for spitting on burgers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Riaan State's national animal is the Antelope, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Urdo.

Riaan State is ranked 280,292^nd in the world and 141^st in The Western Isles for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 2,202.47 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.