The Christian Nation of Riverstones is a huge, efficient nation, ruled by Empress Phoenix with an even hand, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, irreverence towards religion, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 826 million Stoneians enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The relatively small, liberal, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rivercity. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 15.4%.

The powerhouse Riverstonesian economy, worth 70.8 trillion RSDS a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Soda Sales, Arms Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 85,675 RSDS, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 508,127 per year while the poor average 6,649, a ratio of 76.4 to 1.

The "blue screen of death" forces many trials to be either aborted or restarted, young and brooding teens are welcomed with open arms to the Dogwarts School of Strangeness and Sorcery, too many developers spoil the codebase, and the government loves seeing the little people fight. Crime is a major problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Riverstones's national animal is the Pumpkin, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Riverstones is ranked 214,644^th in the world and 5,128^th in The North Pacific for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry, scoring -3.46 on the Tasmanian Pulp Environmental Export Index.