The Greater Karyun Confederation of Barks Nivvlla is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by President Kalyamari Argonica with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, state-planned economy, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 5.12 billion Barks are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Industry, Administration, and Education also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Environment are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Waffles. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 92.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Barks economy, worth a remarkable 1,728 trillion Credits 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Uranium Mining. 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 an amazing 337,533 Credits, with the richest citizens earning 9.3 times as much as the poorest.

The nation's universities are often mistaken for foreign embassies, ersatz chicken has left the nation's citizens with a bad taste in their mouths, asking 'does my bum look big in this?' leads to 30 hours of self-esteem classes, and SOS from foreign ships mean "shoot on sight". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Barks Nivvlla's national animal is the Snow Tunneling Whipping Spider, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Wafflism.

Barks Nivvlla is ranked 112,038^th in the world and 4,040^th in Lazarus for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 1,415.99 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.