The School Prefect of Zhrein is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Red Beret with a fair hand, and remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.619 billion Zhreians 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 relatively small, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Brooklyn. The average income tax rate is 19.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Zhreinian economy, worth 57.7 trillion Words a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Book Publishing, and Pizza Delivery. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 35,659 Words, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Teachers are dying as they attempt to read 500 word essays without pausing for breath, goldfish bowls are three metres in diameter, flash floods that dams could have controlled regularly ravage small towns in mountain valleys, and Red Beret has just been declared ruler of Zhrein in an international press conference. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Zhrein's national animal is the Mockingjay, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Zhrein is ranked 72,353^rd in the world and 4^th in The Storage Foundation for Safest, scoring 94.79 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.