The Democratic Republic of Kyriarsk is a large, genial nation, remarkable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, daily referendums, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 94 million Kyrians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 81.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Kyriarskian economy, worth 2.22 trillion Kyrian Gold Standards 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 mostly made up of the Pizza Delivery industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Cheese Exports, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 23,603 Kyrian Gold Standards, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Cosmopolitan citizens ask what their countries can do for them, the revelation that people were sexist in the past is apparently front page news, park rangers perform full-body searches on suspected fungus smugglers, and dog breeding has been banned in accordance with recent animal experimentation laws. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kyriarsk's national animal is the Blackbird, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Kyriarsk is ranked 199,550^th in the world and 1,126^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 40.87 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.