The Republic of Zupla is a titanic, socially progressive nation, ruled by President Leon with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 14.858 billion Zuplans 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 large, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pax. The average income tax rate is 97.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Zuplan economy, worth a remarkable 3,186 trillion Zuplan Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 214,485 Zuplan Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Truth is often impossible to tell from fiction on the evening news, Zuplan military drills look more like joint-The Order of the Grey Wardens exercises than anything else, primetime re-runs of The Black and White Minstrel Show are a critical hit, and a faint smell of body odour can be detected at several miles' distance from the National Science Park. Crime is totally unknown. Zupla's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zupla is ranked 2,998^th in the world and 5^th in The Order of the Grey Wardens for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 99.12 on the Kitten Softness Rating.