The of Zarbik is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, pith helmet sales, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 13.485 billion are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of . The average income tax rate is 93.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient economy, worth a remarkable 5,264 trillion s a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 390,388 s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

The nation's interest in space is at an all-time high while interest in saving the planet is at an all-time low, reflection is vital for badly behaved politicians, children spend all morning taking out a comma and all afternoon putting it back in again, and have replaced bears in a popular idiom. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Zarbik's national animal is the , which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is .

Zarbik is ranked 3,199^th in the world and 17^th in the Plains of Perdition for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 7,217.79 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.