The Queendom of Kyrisland is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Empress Kyris with an iron fist, and remarkable for its closed borders, avant-garde cinema, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 1.044 billion Kyrislandians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wysterville. The average income tax rate is 94.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Kyrislandian economy, worth 108 trillion Kyrians a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Cheese Exports, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an impressive 103,682 Kyrians, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The new Refuse Hills housing development is under construction, work creation schemes keep the masses occupied with meaningless tasks, the hills are alive with the smell of burning flesh, and the hills are alive with the sound of ringtones. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kyrisland's national animal is the Axolotl, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Kyristian.

Kyrisland is ranked 290,503^rd in the world and 4,703^rd in The East Pacific for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 6,220.97 Standard Monetary Units.