The Confederacy of Zyvetskistaahn is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by The Council of Executors with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and pith helmet sales. The compassionate, democratic population of 25.37 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 91.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Zyveten economy, worth a remarkable 2,036 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. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 80,281 Zyvetenmarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Advertisers are struggling to make water sound cool to a twitchy public, the entire entry for Zyvetskistaahn in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the World reads 'mostly harmless', stony-faced prosecutors play loud gangster rap music during court proceedings, and foreign leaders are advising that The Council of Executors's letters must have gotten lost in the mail. Crime, especially youth-related, 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 52,355^th in the world and 1,622^nd in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 142.29 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.