The Most Serene Republic of RiverLorn is a titanic, safe nation, renowned for its national health service, compulsory military service, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate population of 10.256 billion RiverLornians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Environment, and Education. The average income tax rate is 74.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The RiverLornian economy, worth 389 trillion Rings a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 37,938 Rings, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Daydreaming on public transport is considered impolite, all guns must be registered, virtual assistants are seen with increasing suspicion every time they get an upgrade, and criminals rejoice in the streets as the entire police force is sent away on a training retreat. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. RiverLorn's national animal is the Elk, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

RiverLorn is ranked 97,900^th in the world and 4,954^th in Balder for Most Developed, scoring 61.93 on the Human Development Index.