The Basileia of Zantiom is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Zanaflex the Casual with a fair hand, and renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, irreverence towards religion, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 1.887 billion Zantines enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zontanipolis. The average income tax rate is 24.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Zantine economy, worth 219 trillion Zircons a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 116,073 Zircons, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.9 times as much as the poorest.

Going on a diet invalidates your passport, human sacrifice to the metaphorical altar of Mammon ensures national prosperity, wealthy pranksters dump refuse on unsuspecting citizens from up high, and the Smalltopian embassy doubles as an electoral campaign headquarters. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. Zantiom's national animal is the Zorapteran, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Zantiom is ranked 18,766^th in the world and 388^th in The East Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 90 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.