The Riassi Republic of Riassi is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Emekri Zoulatesh with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, national health service, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 4.041 billion Riassis are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Riastok. The average income tax rate is 99.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Riassi economy, worth 781 trillion Auremuses a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 193,297 Auremuses, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The diplomatic corps stinks, paleogeneticists have taken a Jurassic bite out of the budget, it is believed that belligerence is a passing phase foreign leaders will soon outgrow, and politicians and casino owners who so much as wander into the same room are arrested on the spot. Crime is totally unknown. Riassi's national animal is the Walrus, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is No Official Religion.

Riassi is ranked 3,871^st in the world and 2^nd in Albastru for Smartest Citizens, with 147.55 quips per hour.