The Sultanate of Malkantriz is a huge, orderly nation, ruled by Sultan Rafiq al-Malik ibn Tariq with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, enslaved workforce, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 982 million Malkantrizians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Balqarrah. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 16.6%.

The thriving Malkantrizian economy, worth 71.4 trillion Dinars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 72,662 Dinars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 543,751 per year while the poor average 2,819, a ratio of 192 to 1.

It is a common belief that a sport isn't sport if there are no decapitations, roads are often attended by round-the-clock construction crews, Sultan Rafiq al-Malik ibn Tariq has just been declared ruler of Malkantriz in an international press conference, and visitors to Malkantriz are microchipped and must be escorted by a Malkantrizian soldier - even to the bathroom. Crime is a problem, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Malkantriz's national animal is the Tiger, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Malkantriz is ranked 40,148^th in the world and 16^th in Badlands Frontier for Most Authoritarian, with 2,065.12 milliStalins.