The High Athelingric of Kryvolf is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Asher Wiley with an even hand, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The humorless, devout population of 8.183 billion Kryvolfians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Osearwynn. The average income tax rate is 90.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Kryvolfian economy, worth a remarkable 1,158 trillion pounds a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 141,620 pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Urban high-volume mailers now receive their mail via chauffeur-driven limousines, the threat of economic apocalypse brings out the best in people, theatre may or may not be changing for the better but it is being changed for good, and noises louder than a whisper have been prohibited by law. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kryvolf's national animal is the snow leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Adoptionism.

Kryvolf is ranked 247,578^th in the world and 686^th in Snep for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -5.67 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.