The Hidden Nation of Byzantine Secundus is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Zog with a fair hand, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, smutty television, and otherworldly petting zoo. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 38.092 billion Byzantine Citizens hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, liberal, outspoken government prioritizes Education, although Environment, Industry, and Defense are also considered important, while Spirituality is ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Valinor. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Byzantinian economy, worth an astonishing 11,856 trillion Megabucks a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 311,249 Megabucks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Body doubles and armed bodyguards escort witnesses to and from courtrooms, kindhearted Byzantine Citizens generously pay taxes for citizens of other countries, it is said that the captain goes down with the ship but ecological protection goes up, and leisure is a crime in ski towns. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Byzantine Secundus's national animal is the Platypus, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Discordianism.

Byzantine Secundus is ranked 307,009^th in the world and 1^st in Sigma 957 for Fattest Citizens, with 1.01 Obesity Rate.