The Republic of The Bleaker Zoo is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Isabella with an iron fist, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, ritual sacrifices, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 4.783 billion Bleaker Zooans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bellaton. The average income tax rate is 59.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Bleaker Zooan economy, worth 302 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Tourism, Trout Farming, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 63,240 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Man-love is banned in the name of His love, the nation is weighing the price of victory following a nuclear strike, The Bleaker Zoo has one of the largest offshore wind farms in the world, and shipping canals are a bit like unimaginative cheese shops -- filled with debris. Crime is well under control, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Bleaker Zoo's national animal is the bison, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Bleaker Zoo is ranked 72,953^rd in the world and 1^st in Triton for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 59.02 Effective Tax Rate.