The Armed Psychotic Republic of Zerain 40000 is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 37.071 billion Zerain 40000ians 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 89.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Zerain 40000ian economy, worth a remarkable 2,415 trillion zeths a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 65,145 zeths, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

The Holy Office of the Inquisition is the highest court in the land, senior citizens are often found slaving away in factories, most of the military's funding goes into researching space-age weaponry, and politicians are often seen with soldiers pointing guns at their heads. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zerain 40000's national animal is the Chaos Elemental, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Zerain 40000 is ranked 36,381^st in the world and 3^rd in Continent of Newearthland for Lowest Crime Rates, with 79.3 law-abiding acts per hour.