The Defender of Kivu 4 is a mammoth, safe nation, remarkable for its parental licensing program, state-planned economy, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 7.049 billion Kivu 4ians 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, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 76.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Kivu 4ian economy, worth 952 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 black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. 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 an impressive 135,127 marks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 453,512 per year while the poor average 29,878, a ratio of 15.2 to 1.

Escargots have lost their charm ever since they started to be called 'cooked land snails', the nation thinks the universe revolves around them, the government insists that a ghost voted ten million times in the last election, and a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kivu 4's national animal is the penguin, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Kivu 4 is ranked 317,204^th in the world and 5,097^th in eta for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 14.18 on the Kitten Softness Rating.