The United Socialist Republic of Zynax is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Candelaria Perez Isiordia with a fair hand, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, national health service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.115 billion Zynaxians 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 enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kaiza. The average income tax rate is 81.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Zynaxian economy, worth 217 trillion Stars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Basket Weaving, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 102,882 Stars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Research grant proposals read like political diatribes, children are disappointed to learn that cavemen never had a yabba-dabba-doo time riding dinosaurs to work, the words guilty and evidence have left the Zynaxian lexicon, and small children are learning a lot of new words from a teacher with Tourette Syndrome. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zynax's national animal is the Jaguar, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zynax is ranked 207,173^rd in the world and 204^th in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 5,604.3 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.