The Constitutional Monarchy of Cyphlous is a small, safe nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, soft-spoken computers, and compulsory military service. The compassionate population of 45 million Cyphlousians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 16.4%.

The sizeable but inefficient Cyphlousian economy, worth 2.30 trillion Cyphlousion Dollers 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 major contributions from Tourism, Furniture Restoration, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 51,000 Cyphlousion Dollers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.7 times as much as the poorest.

Leader spends weekends doing the laundry of foreign leaders, a favorite "life hack" for gap year backpackers is to pretend to be homeless for government handouts, the question "please would you...?" is usually laden with passive aggression, and executions often take hours as amateurs attempt to find veins. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cyphlous's national animal is the The Great Cyphlousion Horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Cyphlous is ranked 230,401^st in the world and 4,974^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.