The Democratic Republic of Yzhklabau is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, daily referendums, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 904 million Yzhklabans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zaharberritze. The average income tax rate is 89.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Yzhklaban economy, worth 30.6 trillion yƑ Yzhklan Florins a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Furniture Restoration industry. Average income is 33,818 yƑ Yzhklan Florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The country's population is reported with a margin of error of several billions, government bureaucrats review designs for birdhouses to ensure they do not block the views of neighbors, tax evaders are regularly visited by agents of the Yzhklabau Blood Tithe, and the newest East Lebatuckese coins have "long live East Lebatuck" on heads and "death to Yzhklabau" on tails. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yzhklabau's national animal is the Nilgai, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Yzhklabau is ranked 306,010^th in the world and 40^th in Philosophers for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 22.65 on the Bus Surprisal Index.