The State of Zephyrus is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the Governor with an iron fist, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 12.668 billion Zephyrusians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 68.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Zephyrusian economy, worth 87.8 trillion betales a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. Average income is 6,932 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, Zephyrus has designated Capital Heights as its capital city, The Governor has just been declared ruler of Zephyrus in an international press conference, and the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zephyrus's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zephyrus is ranked 64,439^th in the world and 2^nd in Republic of Cuba for Lowest Crime Rates, with 70.96 law-abiding acts per hour.