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 anti-smoking policies, state-planned economy, and smutty television. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 27.673 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 a remarkable 8,505 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 307,354 labor certificates, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Criminal rehabilitation takes place in re-education centers, the government's new priority is citizens' access to cat videos, the Zulankan Babysitters Club has proven to be a huge relief to stressed-out parents across the nation, and the Party has more splits than a yo-yo dieter's trousers. Crime is totally unknown. Zulanka's national animal is the leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zulanka is ranked 1,002^nd in the world and 2^nd in The Red Sea for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 18,723.53 on the Gilded Widget Scale.