The Confederacy of Zyvetskistaahn is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by The Council of Executors with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 21.24 billion Zyvetens hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zyveta. The average income tax rate is 87.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Zyveten economy, worth a remarkable 1,578 trillion Zyvetenmarks a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology. Average income is 74,340 Zyvetenmarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The moral worth of national allies is judged by their GDP, where your food came from is an unknowable mystery, one does not simply walk into the tundra, and on graduation day the hats thrown in the air fly high enough to stun passing pigeons. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zyvetskistaahn's national animal is the Liffen forest rat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Zyveten Orthodoxy.

Zyvetskistaahn is ranked 10,950^th in the world and 648^th in The North Pacific for Healthiest Citizens, with 14.12 bananas ingested per day.