The Truly Terrible Empire of Zurealm is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Emperor Zu with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, infamous sell-swords, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 10.747 billion Zurealmians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Imperial City. The average income tax rate is 19.2%.

The very strong Zurealmian economy, worth 570 trillion zuroes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Gambling, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 53,097 zuroes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

The elderly don't know who the dickens adorns the face of newly-issued banknotes, interviewees for teaching jobs are waterboarded to "reveal undesirable histories", most pop videos prominently feature the Zurealmian flag, and the population's jaw muscles put sharks to shame. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Zurealm's national animal is the llama, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Zurealmianism.

Zurealm is ranked 111,517^th in the world and 9^th in Brazen for Most Developed, scoring 58.93 on the Human Development Index.