The Republic of Kivu 41 is a massive, orderly nation, remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, ritual sacrifices, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 2.528 billion Kivu 41ians 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 large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 64.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Kivu 41ian economy, worth 221 trillion marks 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, fairly diversified black market in Retail, Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Furniture Restoration. 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 87,656 marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

The new foreign policy is "why bother invading neighbours when they can be bought wholesale?", former stunt pilots are unable to pass the licence test to fly a drone, political visitors are forced to stop ten paces from Leader's throne, and serial commas clarify the relationship between one's lackeys, the taxpayers, and kinsfolk. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kivu 41's national animal is the sheep, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Kivu 41 is ranked 256,659^th in the world and 121^st in League of Christian Nations for Most Beautiful Environments, with 184.36 pounds of wildlife per square mile.