The Queendom of Rivulet is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 419 million Ruffles are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 78.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Ruffles economy, worth 28.0 trillion Shines 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 led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Pizza Delivery, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 66,880 Shines, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

All you have to do is pray to get into Rivulet, people say that cubists are rubbish because they can't draw faces, it's been a banner year for local vexillology, and the bourgeoisie are asked nicely to hand over the means of production. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rivulet's national animal is the Neuron fly, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Rivulet is ranked 197,418^th in the world and 20^th in Icor for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -2.45 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.