The People's Republic of Ziprotscria is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Shimtaenek Atkunsinkar with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 5.613 billion Ziprotscrians 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 medium-sized, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Katyushankret. The average income tax rate is 67.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ziprotscrian economy, worth 693 trillion Risenkas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 123,551 Risenkas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Artists are pillars of society, polygamy is legal, the government has instituted 'traveller reservations' across the country, and nude art is becoming wildly popular. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Ziprotscria's national animal is the Golden Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Ziprotscria is ranked 11,576^th in the world and 560^th in The North Pacific for Most Beautiful Environments, with 1,452.13 pounds of wildlife per square mile.