The Council Republic of Zulanka in NK is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by The Communist Party of Zulanka with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, daily referendums, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 19.328 billion Zulankans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government prioritizes Education, although Welfare, Environment, and Industry are also considered important, while Defense and Spirituality are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ad Infinitum. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Zulankan economy, worth a remarkable 4,533 trillion labor certificates 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 Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 234,535 labor certificates, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Pedal-powered removal vans are a popular Maxxmas gift for the children of separated parents, not many kids know Shakespeare's Hamlet but most of them have seen unofficial sequel Hamlet III - The Search For Osric, Zulanka in NK has one of the largest offshore wind farms in the world, and birth rates have hit an all-time low. Crime is totally unknown. Zulanka in NK's national animal is the leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zulanka in NK is ranked 314,146^th in the world and 26^th in North Korea for Most Primitive, scoring -748.39 on the Scary Big Number Scale.