The People's Republic of Kirrlark is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Atlas with an even hand, and renowned for its absence of drug laws, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.127 billion Kirrlarkians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Atla. The average income tax rate is 23.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Kirrlarkian economy, worth 228 trillion Purnies a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 55,329 Purnies, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Advertisements for jobs in the sciences run in fashion magazines, the installation of street lights across remote goat tracks has left citizens bemused, traveller camps regularly block five-lane superhighways, and the fire brigade often deal with cases of burnt toast. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Kirrlark's national animal is the Grey Lynx, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is None.

Kirrlark is ranked 157,542^nd in the world and 1,160^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 1,162.02 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.