The Republic of Kivu 28 is a massive, orderly nation, remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, zero percent divorce rate, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 2.639 billion Kivu 28ians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 72.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Kivu 28ian economy, worth 189 trillion pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Soda Sales, Retail, Uranium Mining, and Cheese Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 71,848 pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Newspapers and TV broadcasters are given a list of 'acceptable words', childish pranks are no laughing matter, the people are famous throughout the region for their perfect yellow teeth, and young children are learning advanced physics to scientifically disprove the existence of Santa Claus. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kivu 28's national animal is the unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Kivu 28 is ranked 205,864^th in the world and 99^th in Fukuoka for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 37.15 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.