The Federation of Zko is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 214 million Zkoans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 66.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Zkoan economy, worth 9.37 trillion ⋖$s a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Trout Farming. Average income is 43,780 ⋖$s, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Jails have become colloquially known as 'vampire houses', citizens recently voted in favour of declaring bubblewrap an 'abomination of nature', translators are keen to explain feline MPs' claw and ordure policies, and guilt tripped foreigners heavily dictate child hunger in Zko. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zko's national animal is the Zkoan Ape, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zko is ranked 44,674^th in the world and 42^nd in The Order of the Grey Wardens for Lowest Crime Rates, with 80.64 law-abiding acts per hour.