The State of La Riojania is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Célaga with an iron fist, and notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, pith helmet sales, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 4.382 billion Riojanos 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 medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vinchina. The average income tax rate is 60.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Riojano economy, worth 657 trillion Peso Riojanoes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 150,039 Peso Riojanoes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.

Nobody draws smiley faces on receipts anymore, prime commercial land is being swamped with archaeological teams, biotech companies are fined if their jumbled genetic sequences look too familiar, and prisoners regularly escape detention posing as scarecrows. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. La Riojania's national animal is the Capybara, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Evangelism.

La Riojania is ranked 256,715^th in the world and 150^th in Anteria for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 43.9 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.