The Ocean world of Ricalda is a huge, cultured nation, ruled by EFC Louis Varius with an even hand, and remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, anti-smoking policies, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 776 million Ricaldans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

The medium-sized government prioritizes Administration, with Education, Healthcare, and Law & Order also on the agenda, while Spirituality is ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cython. The average income tax rate is 55.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Ricaldan economy, worth 78.5 trillion Felons a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Trout Farming, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 101,123 Felons, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Most of the nation's wealthy aristocrats are dentists, the intelligence community is playing 4-D chess with an imaginary spy network, on graduation day the hats thrown in the air fly high enough to stun passing pigeons, and the government is funding experimental battery technology while the power grid continues to crumble. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ricalda's national animal is the Falcon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Ricalda is ranked 289,316^th in the world and 2^nd in Rainy peninsula for Largest Black Market, with 42.0 billion Standard Monetary Units.