The Democratic Republic of Zyrr is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Pres Julia Dumarqué and PM Brooke Ardoix with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, national health service, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 11.295 billion Zyrronians 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Social Policy. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zyrr City. The average income tax rate is 99.1%.

The powerhouse Zyrronian economy, worth a remarkable 1,704 trillion Zyrronian Pound Z£s a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 150,919 Zyrronian Pound Z£s, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Medical experts advise that those claiming to be medical experts are probably fraudsters, kids looking for shark teeth have become ancient history, a ban on robots in disguise has transformed the entertainment industry, and children must be board certified to append "Jr" to their name. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zyrr's national animal is the Kangaroo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zyrr is ranked 1,994^th in the world and 95^th in Balder for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring 43 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.