The Dictatorship of Risalg is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Czar with an even hand, and remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, keen interest in outer space, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 2.154 billion Risalgians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The relatively small, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sankt-Petersburg. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 18.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Risalgian economy, worth 269 trillion Arrobas a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 125,295 Arrobas, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 572,821 per year while the poor average 16,692, a ratio of 34.3 to 1.

Internet searches for the inventor of the three-wheeled steam-powered Risalgian weed picker are way up, Czar's exquisite office door is replaced monthly due to angry petitioners, motorway service stations often have a higher population than the hinterland villages that the roads lead to, and police protocol is to arrest anyone who looks a bit foreign. Crime is almost non-existent. Risalg's national animal is the Bull, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Atheism.

Risalg is ranked 26,163^rd in the world and 4^th in IADG for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 6,868.64 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.