The Bureaucracy of Ithkuil is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by a bureaucrat with an iron fist, and remarkable for its strictly enforced bedtime, infamous sell-swords, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.079 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, socially-minded 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 98.1%.

The frighteningly efficient bureaucratic economy, worth 717 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 175,963 papers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

The main interest rates change daily based on the latest news story, grade school teachers mark homework with red "CITATION NEEDED" stamps, priests roam the streets with child-catcher nets, and space shuttles regularly launch rubbish into space. 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 327,057^th in the world and 207^th in Refugia for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 3,343.3 Standard Monetary Units.