The Consensus of Zesh is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Consensus with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, deadly medical pandemics, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 4.287 billion Zesh are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Core. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 58.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Scientific economy, worth a remarkable 1,860 trillion gigajoules a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an amazing 433,914 gigajoules, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,905,617 per year while the poor average 62,124, a ratio of 30.7 to 1.

Members of Parliament are often found living in cardboard boxes, wealthy Zesh never seem to hear the doorbell, 90% of active duty ZAF personnel have been laid off and replaced by robot kill-drones, and acute politicians deride opposition members for being obtuse. Crime, especially youth-related, is a problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Zesh's national animal is the lab rat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Logic.

Zesh is ranked 74,020^th in the world and 14^th in Free Market Federation for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 58.46 Effective Tax Rate.