The Confederacy of Zyvetskistaahn is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by The Council of Executors with an even hand, and notable for its pith helmet sales, keen interest in outer space, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 25.323 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 90.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Zyveten economy, worth a remarkable 1,957 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. Average income is 77,284 Zyvetenmarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Journalists often nap through tedious police press briefings, nobody is allowed to mention what religion terrorists follow, under love's heavy burden The Council of Executors sinks lower in the political right's esteem, and spontaneous nocturnal decapitation is considered 'death by natural causes' for enemies of Zyvetskistaahn. 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 21,971^st in the world and 629^th in The North Pacific for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 6,791.45 on the Gilded Widget Scale.