The People's Grand Duchy of Risottia is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Granduc Marc Primm with a fair hand, and notable for its national health service, digital currency, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, democratic, humorless population of 40.155 billion Risottians, 39.755 billion of whom are zombies, love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The tiny, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Milan. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Risottese economy, worth an astonishing 16,363 trillion ghells a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 374,915 ghells, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Geosynchronous satellites are now manned by unpaid interns, finders keepers is the law of the land, factories place endangered birds in their rafters in pursuit of government protections, and scummy-looking teenagers outside government buildings sell bureaucrats spoofed ShortTok accounts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Risottia's national animal is the watersnake, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Risottia is ranked 158,463^rd in the world and 6,868^th in Osiris for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 104.57 on the Clooney Contribution Index.