The Council Republic of Zulanka is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The Communist Party of Zulanka with a fair hand, and notable for its keen interest in outer space, avant-garde cinema, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 32.873 billion Zulankans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

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

The frighteningly efficient Zulankan economy, worth an astonishing 10,288 trillion labor certificates 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 312,965 labor certificates, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Fifteen-year-olds cannot walk younger siblings to school without a professional Childcare and Education Certificate, a government program is underway to revitalize Zulanka's beaches, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, and young girls aren't having a ball but they are enjoying themselves. Crime is totally unknown. Zulanka's national animal is the leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zulanka is ranked 332,755^th in the world and 2^nd in The Red Sea for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 14.23 on the Bus Surprisal Index.