The Bureaucracy of Ithkuil is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by a bureaucrat with an even hand, and renowned for its smutty television, parental licensing program, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate, humorless, devout population of 3.945 billion bureaucrats are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of bureau. The average income tax rate is 97.8%.

The frighteningly efficient bureaucratic economy, worth 673 trillion papers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 170,764 papers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

Physics lessons mostly involve talking about emotional management techniques, things are looking up for patients accidentally prescribed erectile dysfunction medication, legitimate job descriptions now include "smiling and waving", and the government says that Possession is nine-tenths of the Lore. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ithkuil's national animal is the sloth, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is bureaucracy.

Ithkuil is ranked 5,134^th in the world and 31^st in Refugia for Most Developed, scoring 94.45 on the Human Development Index.