The Proletarian Republic of Kyriarsk is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Chair Brandikai with an even hand, and remarkable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cheerful population of 5.332 billion Kyrians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Asurak. The average income tax rate is 98.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Kyriarskian economy, worth a remarkable 1,037 trillion Kyrian Rubles 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 dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 194,555 Kyrian Rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Builders across Kyriarsk are blocked up with orders for new public loos, religious households enthusiastically use whips in private, a sincere statement of belief can get you out of anything, and jail house rock has been replaced with jail house golden oldies. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Kyriarsk's national animal is the Blackbird, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is State Atheism.

Kyriarsk is ranked 3,761^st in the world and 67^th in The Communist Bloc for Smartest Citizens, with 149.39 quips per hour.