The Community of Zeta Reticuli Alpha is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by The High Commander with an iron fist, and remarkable for its smutty television, compulsory military service, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 6.154 billion Zeta Reticuli Alphans 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Mother Ship. The average income tax rate is 21.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Zeta Reticuli Alphan economy, worth 535 trillion Zeta Reticuli Credits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Information Technology, and Tourism. Average income is 86,961 Zeta Reticuli Credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

Children seem to be getting better at lying these days, prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators, journalists often nap through tedious police press briefings, and nobody is allowed to mention what religion terrorists follow. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zeta Reticuli Alpha's national animal is the Gormagander, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Panspermia.

Zeta Reticuli Alpha is ranked 60,387^th in the world and 1^st in Proxima Centauri b for Lowest Crime Rates, with 71.71 law-abiding acts per hour.