The Republic of Zupla is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by President Leon with a fair hand, and renowned for its unlimited-speed roads, infamous sell-swords, and otherworldly petting zoo. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 14.709 billion Zuplans 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 large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pax. The average income tax rate is 97.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Zuplan economy, worth a remarkable 3,128 trillion Zuplan Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 212,682 Zuplan Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Travelers praise airports for their endless beige corridors, a passport is literally priceless, death is nobody's business, and mystics are claiming that a simultaneous rise in scepticism and education budgets is correlation rather than causation. Crime is totally unknown. Zupla's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zupla is ranked 2,457^th in the world and 6^th in The Order of the Grey Wardens for Most Developed, scoring 97.74 on the Human Development Index.