The Fisheye Camera of Zeta City is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, absence of drug laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.072 billion Zetaites are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Healthcare, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zeta City. The average income tax rate is 45.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Zeta Cityian economy, worth 100 trillion dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 48,313 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Religious organizations are being forced to leave the country or pay income taxes like everybody else, school teachers check the staff room for hidden webcams before complaining about rebellious students, criminals always seem to be forewarned of police raids, and Leader's peyote-induced "let's all just be friends" speech is trending world-wide. Crime is totally unknown. Zeta City's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zeta City is ranked 235,129^th in the world and 15^th in Chessboard for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring -5.35 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.