The Orwellian Dictatorship of Zaharial is a mammoth, safe nation, ruled by Evan R Mahaur with an iron fist, and notable for its national health service, state-planned economy, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 5.412 billion Zahari 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, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zahar city. The average income tax rate is 99.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Zaharian economy, worth a remarkable 2,295 trillion Zahauroes 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 an amazing 424,182 Zahauroes, with the richest citizens earning 6.9 times as much as the poorest.

Panicking criminals no longer flush contraband down the toilet, grannies with arthritic hands work miserably on factory production lines, punk rockers smash it up and then clean it up, and families returning from international vacations are unable to get their children back into the country. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zaharial's national animal is the Cobra, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Leaderalism.

Zaharial is ranked 130,670^th in the world and 22^nd in Mitteleuropa for Largest Populations, with 5.41 billion capita.