The Defender of Kivu 16 is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its national health service, public floggings, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 4.246 billion Kivu 16ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 72.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Kivu 16ian economy, worth 466 trillion guilders a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Retail, Woodchip Exports, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is extensive. Average income is an impressive 109,838 guilders, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.5 times as much as the poorest.

The navy is chrome-plating its battleships to prevent rust, stony-faced prosecutors play loud gangster rap music during court proceedings, tipsy fans frequently invite themselves to the board meetings of sports clubs, and Animal Liberationists are regularly arrested. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kivu 16's national animal is the leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Kivu 16 is ranked 24,738^th in the world and 155^th in Artificial Solar System for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry, scoring 7,178.17 on the Tasmanian Pulp Environmental Export Index.