The Commonwealth of Kirkas is a mammoth, socially progressive nation, ruled by Premier Ochas Valo II with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, compulsory vegetarianism, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 7.874 billion Kirkasians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Paistaa. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Kirkasian economy, worth a remarkable 1,845 trillion electrums a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 234,434 electrums, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Consumption of cat memes has skyrocketed, it is illegal to make racist remarks in public, you need two tenors and a coloratura contralto to sing the national anthem properly, and schoolboys who turn to watch pretty girls go by are given detention. Crime is totally unknown. Kirkas's national animal is the mountain bluebird, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Kirkas is ranked 562^nd in the world and 21^st in The Communist Bloc for Nicest Citizens, with 109.49 average smiles per day.