The Republic of Cypheri is a titanic, socially progressive nation, ruled by Douglas J Hunley with an even hand, and renowned for its state-planned economy, ban on automobiles, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 21.225 billion Cypherians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zion. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Cypherian economy, worth a remarkable 7,102 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 334,611 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Student athletes gaze forlornly at abandoned eagleball fields, community-designed sword prostheses are becoming dangerously common, citizens who leave the country are officially classed as traitors, and refugees from other nations are flocking to Cypheri's border. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cypheri's national animal is the eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Science.

Cypheri is ranked 306,699^th in the world and 4,204^th in the South Pacific for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 14.39 on the Bus Surprisal Index.