The Imperial Federation of The Ruivan Empire is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Emperor Lanti with an iron fist, and remarkable for its public floggings, ubiquitous missile silos, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 28.047 billion Ruivans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Law & Order and Education also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Environment receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sigma. The average income tax rate is 78.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ruivan economy, worth a remarkable 5,008 trillion Ruivs a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 178,591 Ruivs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The military maintains a fierce arsenal of 'Cure Missiles', running away is an essential part of the elite forces' hand-to-hand training, future forecasters fearfully discuss grey goo and human obsolescence, and treaties are taken to be mere rules of thumb. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Ruivan Empire's national animal is the Ruivan Otter, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Atheism.

The Ruivan Empire is ranked 95,372^nd in the world and 4,425^th in Osiris for Most Corrupt Governments, with 14.5 kickbacks per hour.