The Empire of Zanithia is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Dex with an even hand, and notable for its complete lack of prisons, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-working population of 4.573 billion Zanions have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Astroria. The average income tax rate is 53.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Zanion economy, worth 714 trillion Pounds a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 156,213 Pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

Politicians cheer the nation's surging death rate, every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead, the nation has welcomed its expats back with open arms, and government negotiators never forget to say "pretty please" when begging for custody of its criminals. Crime is totally unknown. Zanithia's national animal is the Demonic cats, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zanithia is ranked 303,631^st in the world and 4,922^nd in The East Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -336.27 on the Scary Big Number Scale.