The Republic of Mizrad is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Ryan West with an even hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, digital currency, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, democratic, humorless population of 16.198 billion Mizradians, 15.411 billion of whom are zombies, have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Boston. The average income tax rate is 86.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Mizradian economy, worth a remarkable 2,041 trillion Duntoes a year, is highly specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 101,699 Duntoes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens applying for their first jobs face fierce competition from the homeless, the Wolf is protected from hunting and slowly coming back from the brink of extinction, government officials go door-to-door educating about the dangers of pseudoscience, and science centers and state of the art laboratories are ubiquitous. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mizrad's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mizrad is ranked 5,105^th in the world and 264^th in Lazarus for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 2,494.49 on the Clooney Contribution Index.