The Republic of Zupla is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by President Leon with a fair hand, and renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 13.442 billion Zuplans 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 large, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pax. The average income tax rate is 96.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Zuplan economy, worth a remarkable 2,740 trillion Zuplan Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 203,840 Zuplan Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government sends submarines to retrieve bodies from shipwrecked submarines, people who have had childhood imaginary friends are told they can't ever be trusted with guns, the latest electric jet fighter has almost enough battery charge to reach cruising altitude -- provided you don't use the radar, and consumption of cat memes has skyrocketed. Crime is totally unknown. Zupla's national animal is the Gray Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zupla is ranked 5,068^th in the world and 166^th in The North Pacific for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 11,078.7 on the Gilded Widget Scale.