The Republic of Zyropia is a very large, genial nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 162 million Zyropians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 46.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Zyropian economy, worth 8.24 trillion Zyropian Dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Trout Farming, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 50,879 Zyropian Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Immigrants complain that natives keep coming over and taking their jobs, 90% of active duty ZAF personnel have been laid off and replaced by robot kill-drones, the team in charge of creating a new writing system have spent months deciding whether or not to use serif or sans-serif characters, and on graduation day the hats thrown in the air fly high enough to stun passing pigeons. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Zyropia's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zyropia is ranked 178,703^rd in the world and 3,962^nd in The North Pacific for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 445.53 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.