The Undying Legend of Shyluz is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by This Fool with an iron fist, and renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, avant-garde cinema, and smutty television. The compassionate, cynical, humorless population of 7.145 billion Shyluzis are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, well-organized morass — prioritizes Defense, with Education, Healthcare, and Public Transport also on the agenda. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bresau. The average income tax rate is 98.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Shyluzi economy, worth a remarkable 1,266 trillion SINS a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, highly specialized black market in Information Technology and Arms Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 177,260 SINS, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Counselors have to sign pledges supporting gay rights before they can speak to any patients, sea side cafes are required by law to close during summer, builders across Shyluz are blocked up with orders for new public loos, and prisoners regularly escape detention posing as scarecrows. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shyluz's national animal is the Shyluzi Pinehound, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Shyluz is ranked 11,097^th in the world and 580^th in Lazarus for Smartest Citizens, with 87.67 quips per hour.