The Sultanate of Zahootan is a titanic, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, parental licensing program, and strictly enforced bedtime. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 14.101 billion Zahootanians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tehran. The average income tax rate is 93.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Zahootanian economy, worth a remarkable 2,795 trillion rials 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, quite specialized black market in Retail, Uranium Mining, Basket Weaving, and Furniture Restoration. 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 impressive 198,272 rials, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Kids leave museums believing that some humans have six fingers, Leader is off to feed the wonderful wizard to hogs, drug deals return to the streets as legions of undercover officers stalk the dark web, and the government snoops on private internet connections. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zahootan's national animal is the falcon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Zahootan is ranked 302,225^th in the world and 8^th in Iran for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring -9.49 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.