The Ever Freezing Nation of Zypheria is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Damian Wilson with a fair hand, and renowned for its national health service, infamous sell-swords, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.082 billion slugcats 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 enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Frasty. The average income tax rate is 93.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient slugcat economy, worth 140 trillion pearls a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an impressive 129,851 pearls, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

1% of global paper production is bound for the National Archive, the voyages of obsolete star-trekking satellites on deliberate escape orbits are only just beginning, therapists can always squeeze in another house-call, and a traveller who once stubbed a toe on an Air Brancaland flight has been offered asylum. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zypheria's national animal is the White Weasel, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is None.

Zypheria is ranked 7,923^rd in the world and 15^th in Karma for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 14,776.64 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.