The Commonwealth of Zesole is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Queen Miralina with an even hand, and notable for its pith helmet sales, frequent executions, and irreverence towards religion. The quiet, industrious population of 1.748 billion Zesoleans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government prioritizes Education, although Law & Order, Defense, and Administration are also considered important, while Spirituality isn't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Preyden. The average income tax rate is 39.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Zesolean economy, worth 93.2 trillion Jikas a year, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 53,343 Jikas, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Z-SPAN viewership drops as MPs act their age, monocled merchants with funny accents are applying for Zesolean citizenship in droves, schoolchildren on field trips are asked what torture means to them, and the government has officially clarified that "wee on your hands to save time" does not count as proper hygiene. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zesole's national animal is the Northern Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zesole is ranked 111,574^th in the world and 105^th in Aesica for Largest Governments, scoring 15.46 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.