The Free Land of Rivernight is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, ban on automobiles, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.286 billion Rivernightians 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 large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Social Policy. The average income tax rate is 59.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Rivernightian economy, worth 87.6 trillion blacknotes 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 slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Retail, Trout Farming, and Cheese Exports. 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 38,340 blacknotes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Schoolboys who turn to watch pretty girls go by are given detention, there's never enough space in space, t-shirts displaying a photo of Leader performing the Full-Monty are selling out, and dandruff and athlete's foot are seen as signs of physical beauty. Crime is totally unknown. Rivernight's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Rivernight is ranked 16,095^th in the world and 794^th in Osiris for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 56.7 on the Kitten Softness Rating.