The Holy Empire of Z e r o is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its enslaved workforce, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 3.211 billion Z e r oans 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 80.8%.

The powerhouse Z e r oan economy, worth 266 trillion Golds a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Furniture Restoration, and Gambling. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 82,901 Golds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.1 times as much as the poorest.

The annual Adult Film Awards have a category for most titillating aftershave advert, Z e r oan military drills look more like joint-Number exercises than anything else, only clowns with PhDs from clown college can advise Leader on Z e r o's coulrophobia epidemic, and the arms industry has been shut down in a surge of pacifism. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Z e r o's national animal is the Dragon, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Z e r o is ranked 8,129^th in the world and 1^st in Number for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 10,551.45 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.