The Greater New Federal Republic of Cyrilla is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Alfonso Balansag III with an even hand, and notable for its public floggings, free-roaming dinosaurs, and daily referendums. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 16.509 billion Cyrillans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cyrillus City. The average income tax rate is 95.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Cyrillan economy, worth a remarkable 1,713 trillion Cyrics a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 103,770 Cyrics, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Exorbitant spending on icebreakers breaks the ice at every budget meeting, adverts proclaim it has to be healthy if the Mornay uses hand-grated Gallopavian Gruyère, it takes months to get the proper permits for a child's first tricycle, and the government recently donated a surfboard to an impoverished family in a landlocked region. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cyrilla's national animal is the fighting cock or gamefowl, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Roman Catholic.

Cyrilla is ranked 21,573^rd in the world and 1,215^th in Lazarus for Most Cultured, scoring 89 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.