The Republic of Syrda is a titanic, cultured nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, frequent executions, and prohibition of alcohol. The compassionate, devout population of 14.909 billion Syrdans 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 enormous, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Environment, and Education. The average income tax rate is 83.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Syrdan economy, worth a remarkable 1,164 trillion takas a year, is highly specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Cheese Exports. Average income is 78,131 takas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The diplomatic corps stinks, five-year-olds chanting "Little Miss Muffet" are accused of bullying arachnophobes, people with hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia faint upon diagnosis, and preschoolers outnumber veteran politicians in government. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Syrda's national animal is the llama, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Syrda is ranked 40,075^th in the world and 330^th in the Rejected Realms for Highest Poor Incomes, with 63,922.09 Standard Monetary Units.