The Republic of Zephyrus IX is a gargantuan, safe nation, notable for its complete lack of prisons, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The cynical population of 39.888 billion Zephyrus IXians 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 70.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Zephyrus IXian economy, worth 981 trillion golds a year, is highly specialized and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with significant contributions from Gambling, Basket Weaving, and Information Technology. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 24,613 golds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Elections have been outlawed and euthanasia is legal. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zephyrus IX's national animal is the Tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zephyrus IX is ranked 145,933^rd in the world and 6,794^th in Balder for Lowest Crime Rates, with 61.36 law-abiding acts per hour.