The Confederacy of Zila is a large, safe nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, barren, inhospitable landscape, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 130 million Zilans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 11.3%.

The all-consuming Zilan economy, worth 11.4 trillion Byrds a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 87,498 Byrds, with the richest citizens earning 5.1 times as much as the poorest.

The public transport system has been eliminated, Leader sports gold-plated grillz to promote the government's hard money policy, justice is blinding, and dozens of viewers go online to hear whether a comma has been added to Clause 5 in Subsection B of Law 58375. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zila's national animal is the Raven, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Zila is ranked 247,261^st in the world and 661^st in Horizon for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -3.58 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.