The Republic of Zurg is a mammoth, safe nation, renowned for its vat-grown people, compulsory military service, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 8.717 billion Zurgians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 39.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Zurgian economy, worth 537 trillion credits a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Tourism, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 61,690 credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

The government seizes corporate assets it deems 'scary enough', graffiti artists spend lengthy periods of time in jail, crime suspects are forced to submit to blood testing, and Calvinball players are lost for days as they wander the vast halls of their new academies. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zurg's national animal is the evil minion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zurg is ranked 66,465^th in the world and 57^th in Remembrance for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 4,282.83 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.