The Colony of Sidewalk Zone is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by Jay Myers with a fair hand, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, cheerful population of 9.03 billion Atlanteans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Shadowville. The average income tax rate is 76.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Atlantean economy, worth a remarkable 1,705 trillion Silver Certificates a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 188,906 Silver Certificates, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

The nation's interest in space is at an all-time high while interest in saving the planet is at an all-time low, coastal cities are being moved a dozen miles inland to reduce flooding risk, the law forbids arson, murder, and low-quality cheese, and small patches of desolate land across the world are part of Atlantean sovereign territory. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Sidewalk Zone's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianity.

Sidewalk Zone is ranked 314,749^th in the world and 10^th in Shadowville for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 21.6 on the Bus Surprisal Index.