The United Socialist States of Zadelia is a massive, genial nation, notable for its ban on automobiles, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and smutty television. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.376 billion Augustans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Augusta. The average income tax rate is 68.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Zadelian economy, worth 127 trillion Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 53,469 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Many friends and relatives of Leader have been given ambassador jobs in tropical island nations, hospitals fear government fines more than terrorist ransoms, there's never a spare chair in the retirement home, and old people living in plastic bubbles complain about a new type of social isolation. Crime is totally unknown. Zadelia's national animal is the Penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Zadelia is ranked 26,586^th in the world and 604^th in the South Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 81 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.