The Democratic Republic of The Kies is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by The President with an even hand, and renowned for its national health service, sprawling nuclear power plants, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 4.774 billion Kiesians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kamonan City. The average income tax rate is 75.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Kiesian economy, worth 689 trillion Key Dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 144,326 Key Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Every week is blindness awareness week, politicians tend to jump ship to whichever party is currently leading in the polls, the government is continually probing the galaxy in search of alien life, and on-duty Air The Kies flight attendants are usually seen napping in first class. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Kies's national animal is the Key Wolf, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

The Kies is ranked 287,564^th in the world and 3,882^nd in the South Pacific for Lowest Overall Tax Burden, scoring -117.53 on the Hayek Index.