The Republic of Plirya is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Yakob Nikulshich with an even hand, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, keen interest in outer space, and smutty television. The compassionate population of 3.201 billion Pliryans 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 large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Platonsk. The average income tax rate is 87.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Pliryan economy, worth 435 trillion Plirs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 136,059 Plirs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

The government is continually probing the galaxy in search of alien life, journalists listen to the money talk, if there's something strange in your neighborhood you call Brancaland, and The Pipe Bomb Makers' Pop-Up Book can be found in preschool libraries. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Plirya's national animal is the Quokka, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Secularism.

Plirya is ranked 6,763^rd in the world and 342^nd in Lazarus for Most Cultured, scoring 136 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.