The Soulgodian Commonwealth of Zebastani is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by PM Joseph Hadmirak with an iron fist, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, smutty television, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 3.444 billion Zebastanians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pyro. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 15.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Zebastanian economy, worth 605 trillion Zelts a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Tourism. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 175,865 Zelts, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 809,544 per year while the poor average 23,137, a ratio of 35.0 to 1.

The nation's reputation for treachery has left it sidelined on the international stage, citizens living in underground cities have developed a healthy green glow, politicians ponder for at least a minute when asked if they would like sugar in their tea, and with increasingly clear skies nobody seems to mind the electricity bill going through the roof. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Zebastani's national animal is the giraffe, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Zoroastrianism.

Zebastani is ranked 232,221^st in the world and 759^th in 10000 Islands for Safest, scoring 22.46 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.