The Republic of Kivu 60 is a mammoth, efficient nation, renowned for its closed borders, smutty television, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 5.51 billion Kivu 60ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 68.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Kivu 60ian economy, worth 526 trillion dollars 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 Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, and Trout Farming. 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 95,471 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Counselors have to sign pledges supporting gay rights before they can speak to any patients, women who walk into the ladies' changing room are accused of being Peeping Toms, legislators toe the party line lest the Sergeant-at-Arms decide to conduct "truncheon practice" on the backbench, and the "boy who cried wolf" policy makes sick people reluctant to call an ambulance. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kivu 60's national animal is the unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Kivu 60 is ranked 178,160^th in the world and 9,708^th in Osiris for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 398 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.