The Bureaucracy of Ithkuil is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by a bureaucrat with an iron fist, and notable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, parental licensing program, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.049 billion bureaucrats are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of bureau. The average income tax rate is 98.0%.

The frighteningly efficient bureaucratic economy, worth 713 trillion papers a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 176,295 papers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Nothing is beneath the government after it has extracted all the oil, wildlife have trouble navigating the electric fences surrounding national forests, burial ceremonies have become as routinised as tax forms, and the running costs of homeless shelters are so high that it would be cheaper to buy houses for the homeless. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ithkuil's national animal is the sloth, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is bureaucracy.

Ithkuil is ranked 6,328^th in the world and 53^rd in Refugia for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 7,383.42 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.