The Council Republic of Zulanka is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by The Communist Party of Zulanka with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 32.468 billion Zulankans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government prioritizes Education, although Environment, Welfare, and Healthcare are also considered important, while Defense and Spirituality aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ad Infinitum. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Zulankan economy, worth an astonishing 10,156 trillion labor certificates a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 312,827 labor certificates, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The numbers on the latest spending report are reaching stellar levels, kindhearted Zulankans generously pay taxes for citizens of other countries, The Communist Party of Zulanka's office has a newly installed Max-Man arcade game programmed by a 5th-grader, and therapists can always squeeze in another house-call. Crime is totally unknown. Zulanka's national animal is the leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zulanka is ranked 97^th in the world and 1^st in The Red Sea for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 9,348.34 on the Clooney Contribution Index.