The HAVEN't they learnt their lesson about trusting this circling shark of Mallorea and Riva is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Zakath with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, complete absence of social welfare, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 23.124 billion Mallorea and Rivans enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The tiny, corrupt, liberal, pro-business, well-organized government is effectively ruled by the Department of Defense, with Industry and Law & Order also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Environment are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mal Zeth. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Mallorea and Rivan economy, worth a remarkable 5,118 trillion marks a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Gambling, and Soda Sales. Average income is an amazing 221,369 marks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 742,955 per year while the poor average 48,948, a ratio of 15.2 to 1.

Disputed territories across Please do not raid me are being claimed by Mallorea and Rivan college students, takeaway food bought on the weekend now comes with fifty percent more sweat and tears, at the edge of the final frontier space's biggest missile platform is about to unfold, and having skeletons in one's closet is no longer just a macabre idiom. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Mallorea and Riva's national animal is the narwhal, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Mallorea and Riva is ranked 1,259^th in the world and 1^st in Please do not raid me for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 18,651.45 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.