The Armed Republic of Kivuka is a mid-sized, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 62 million Kivukans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The tiny government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.2%.

The very strong Kivukan economy, worth 4.96 trillion Ouroes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Furniture Restoration, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 80,021 Ouroes, with the richest citizens earning 8.0 times as much as the poorest.

Commercial breaks often lead to nervous breakdowns, businesses have become paranoid as waves of lawsuits sweep the nation, the new "Bloodbath" orange tree autonomously seeks and destroys independent orchards, and undersea volcanoes receive strongly worded letters for violating environmental regulations. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force. Kivuka's national animal is the tubarão-tigre, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Kivuka is ranked 63,019^th in the world and 54^th in Aeternum for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 16,885.53 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.