The Socialist Federal Republic of Zevvelbourg is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Svogenn B Kassle with a fair hand, and remarkable for its national health service, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.525 billion Zevvelbourgers 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, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zevvelich. The average income tax rate is 64.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Zevvelbourgish economy, worth 543 trillion Bitts a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 120,052 Bitts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The military will start wars with other nations on a lark, criminals identify as innocent, Svogenn B Kassle's iHouse is so intelligent that it manages its own social media accounts, and the armed forces have declassified their next-generation document shredder. Crime is totally unknown. Zevvelbourg's national animal is the Falcon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is The Holy Church of The Sphere.

Zevvelbourg is ranked 131,570^th in the world and 127^th in The Kodiak Republic for Lowest Crime Rates, with 62.85 law-abiding acts per hour.