The Republic of Zendo 11 is a mid-sized, safe nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, parental licensing program, and enslaved workforce. The cynical population of 56 million Zendo 11ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 33.6%.

The sizeable but inefficient Zendo 11ian economy, worth 2.11 trillion zens a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 37,749 zens, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 142,080 per year while the poor average 6,995, a ratio of 20.3 to 1.

People who stay late at the office often come home to find their own funeral being planned, war memorials have been modified to include hammocks for napping, small businesses are gobbled up almost daily by corporate giants, and a referendum must be held in order for any new law to be passed. Crime is moderate. Zendo 11's national animal is the zen, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Zendo 11 is ranked 160,331^st in the world and 86^th in Yamagata for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 1,414.48 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.