The First Zombie of Lazarus City is a titanic, efficient nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 24.442 billion Lazarus Cityians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The enormous, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Spirituality, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 58.9%.

The thriving Lazarus Cityian economy, worth a remarkable 1,447 trillion Souls 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 Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Uranium Mining, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 59,213 Souls, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 197,085 per year while the poor average 13,256, a ratio of 14.9 to 1.

All streets are privately owned toll roads, wealthy parents-to-be can select their perfect baby, reporters often lose their jobs over fact-checking errors, and criminals are thrown to the Kitty Kats to repay their debt to society. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lazarus City's national animal is the Kitty Kat, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Lazarus City is ranked 130,536^th in the world and 4^th in Zombieland for Highest Average Incomes, with 59,213.99 Standard Monetary Units.