The Kingdom of Kryval is a very large, cultured nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 402 million Kryvalians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 52.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Kryvalian economy, worth 28.4 trillion Kverds a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 70,731 Kverds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Starving citizens are offered nuclear pasta, the armed forces are locked in an expensive and bloody war abroad to stamp out possible terrorists, government-run screening operations remove embryos with severe genetic disorders, and lovesick people are told 'it's not them, it's you'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kryval's national animal is the eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Kryval is ranked 24,290^th in the world and 53^rd in Eladria for Nicest Citizens, with 21.52 average smiles per day.