The Empire of Zacapatan is a tiny, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its smutty television, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 8 million Kittens enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Environment, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 73.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The struggling Zacapatanian economy, worth 165 billion Kibbles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Soda Sales, and Trout Farming. Average income is 20,703 Kibbles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Same-sex marriages are increasingly common, toy versions of heroin paraphernalia let kids pretend to be their favourite TV characters, the phrase 'spreading like wildfire' is no longer in the public lexicon, and government employees from Zacapatan dominate international lumberjack competitions. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zacapatan's national animal is the hyalopterous lemure, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zacapatan is ranked 46,635^th in the world and 1,097^th in The North Pacific for Nicest Citizens, with 18.02 average smiles per day.