The Republic of Zyropia is a very large, genial nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, frequent executions, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 169 million Zyropians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 46.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Zyropian economy, worth 8.39 trillion Zyropian Dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Trout Farming, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 49,649 Zyropian Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

90% of active duty ZAF personnel have been laid off and replaced by robot kill-drones, the team in charge of creating a new writing system have spent months deciding whether or not to use serif or sans-serif characters, on graduation day the hats thrown in the air fly high enough to stun passing pigeons, and the welfare administration's new sweeping authority has forced the poor and needy to shop from pre-approved grocery lists. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Zyropia's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zyropia is ranked 201,987^th in the world and 4,739^th in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 39.41 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.