The Bureaucracy of Ithkuil is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by a bureaucrat with an iron fist, and remarkable for its daily referendums, zero percent divorce rate, and smutty television. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.061 billion bureaucrats are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of bureau. The average income tax rate is 98.0%.

The frighteningly efficient bureaucratic economy, worth 717 trillion papers a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 176,746 papers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Hospitals are amongst the best-funded in the region, most citizens in Ithkuil are abject pyrophobes after extremely graphic pamphlets were mailed nationwide by the government, teachers prefer to give 'Maybe, Maybe Not' tests when dealing with sensitive subjects, and government officials across Ithkuil are being "encouraged" to adopt sloths to set an example for the populace. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ithkuil's national animal is the sloth, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is bureaucracy.

Ithkuil is ranked 286,694^th in the world and 174^th in Refugia for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring -9.15 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.