The People's Republic of Zoetrope is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Science with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, complete lack of prisons, and digital currency. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 2.934 billion Zoetropeans are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Progreso. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 41.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Zoetropean economy, worth 787 trillion science things a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Book Publishing, and Retail. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 268,427 science things, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,314,153 per year while the poor average 5,163, a ratio of 448 to 1.

Science's iHouse is so intelligent that it manages its own social media accounts, billions are being spent towards constructing the "Great Barrier Reef of Zoetrope", sneezing pedestrians are grabbed by alley-lurking doctors, and people are offered free trials to go to trial. Crime is a major problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Zoetrope's national animal is the test subject, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Zoetrope is ranked 11,475^th in the world and 26^th in Panama Papers for Most Cultured, scoring 108 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.