The Snekdom of Zherid is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Snekula with an even hand, and notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, pith helmet sales, and vat-grown people. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 11.189 billion Zheridians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 91.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Zheridian economy, worth a remarkable 3,491 trillion Balzhes a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 312,076 Balzhes, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,035,267 per year while the poor average 70,212, a ratio of 14.7 to 1.

Zheridian diplomacy is by the book, hot dogs have been renamed lukewarm pigs, Pinkerton agents are called in to forcibly break up white collar strikes, and chickens roam the streets freely. Crime is totally unknown. Zherid's national animal is the snek, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Serpentic Buddhism.

Zherid is ranked 251,483^rd in the world and 4^th in The Lunch Table for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 879.46 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.