The Republic of Knizar is a colossal, safe nation, remarkable for its pith helmet sales, parental licensing program, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 7.425 billion Knizarians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 75.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Knizarian economy, worth 565 trillion Dollars a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Furniture Restoration, and Pizza Delivery. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 76,101 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Every workday begins with group therapy, teenagers are making eye contact with each other for the first time in years, the nation was recently voted "most likely to betray its allies", and blind dates reemerge as a necessary evil in the quest for love. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Knizar's national animal is the Ant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Knizar is ranked 200,958^th in the world and 8,635^th in Lazarus for Most Corrupt Governments, with 1.34 kickbacks per hour.