The Confederacy of Zyvetskistaahn is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by The Council of Executors with an even hand, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies, national health service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 25.344 billion Zyvetens enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it 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 91.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Zyveten economy, worth a remarkable 2,006 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. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 79,153 Zyvetenmarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A degree of self-hatred is vital for a future in politics, a state-funded project is investigating whether the moon is made of cheese, The Council of Executors spends weekends doing the laundry of foreign leaders, and hiding wrinkles with make-up is illegal. 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 274,295^th in the world and 5,942^nd in The North Pacific for Most Patriotic, with 0.64 flags saluted per person per day.