The Principality of Ruvelka is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Captain-General Elsa Szekeres with an iron fist, and renowned for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 27.247 billion Ruvelkans 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 enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Public Transport. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Debrecen. The average income tax rate is 78.5%.

The strong Ruvelkan economy, worth a remarkable 1,849 trillion Laris a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Gambling, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 67,884 Laris, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.7 times as much as the poorest.

Religious organizations are being forced to leave the country or pay income taxes like everybody else, troops are either deafened by gunfire or a hysterical voice screaming the Party manifesto, teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers, and skateboarding is punishable by heavy fines. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ruvelka's national animal is the Ruvelkan Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ruvelka is ranked 205,095^th in the world and 2^nd in Tyran for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 754.32 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.