The Kingdom of Ryasland is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its zero percent divorce rate, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 232 million Ryaslandians are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 16.1%.

The thriving Ryaslandian economy, worth 16.7 trillion Inscribian marks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Cheese Exports, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 71,874 Inscribian marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

The government merely sends empty platitudes whenever natural disasters strike foreign nations, new homeowners go furniture hunting with crowbars, all artwork is carefully screened for offensive material, and the people consider response to rudeness to be an acceptable casus belli. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ryasland's national animal is the sea otter, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Ryasland is ranked 81,844^th in the world and 154^th in The Frontier Sea for Safest, scoring 89.72 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.