The Republic of Cypheri is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Douglas J Hunley with an even hand, and remarkable for its national health service, state-planned economy, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, cheerful population of 17.426 billion Cypherians enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zion. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Cypherian economy, worth a remarkable 5,600 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 321,393 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's diplomats shake hands with those whose hands are drenched in the blood of innocents, the rich tend their gardens inside gated urban farming communities, witnesses have to run a gauntlet of mob enforcers to testify at trials, and the alien invasion siren sounds eerily like a UFO. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cypheri's national animal is the eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Science.

Cypheri is ranked 303,247^th in the world and 5,098^th in the South Pacific for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -15.65 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.