The Snekdom of Zherid is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Snekula with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 11.703 billion Zheridians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 93.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Zheridian economy, worth a remarkable 3,773 trillion Balzhes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 322,463 Balzhes, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 970,291 per year while the poor average 83,601, a ratio of 11.6 to 1.

Major cities shut down as their local sports team takes to the field every day, people invite random old men into their homes to play with their kids, the government is continually probing the galaxy in search of alien life, and woke teenagers spontaneously burst into tears when thinking about the world's woes. Crime is totally unknown. Zherid's national animal is the snek, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Serpentic Buddhism.

Zherid is ranked 76,396^th in the world and 4^th in The Lunch Table for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 3,720.54 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.