The Empire of Zekaria is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Addis Abhabbi with an iron fist, and renowned for its strictly enforced bedtime, sprawling nuclear power plants, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 18.485 billion zekarians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Education, and Administration are also considered important, while Social Policy and Welfare aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sadarah. The average income tax rate is 97.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Zekarian economy, worth a remarkable 9,274 trillion Ducats a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Retail, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is a breathtaking 501,705 Ducats, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Renaissance frescos are being chiselled off public walls, colonial citizens are forced to sing the praise of the "Great Zekarian Liberator", soldiers' positions are given away by the glint of their bayonets, and no one believes anything until it has been strenuously tested and peer-reviewed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zekaria's national animal is the Trout, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is The State.

Zekaria is ranked 324,450^th in the world and 17,550^th in Lazarus for Safest, scoring 5.08 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.