The Principality of Zygop is a colossal, efficient nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, enslaved workforce, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 6.91 billion Zygopians are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The tiny, moralistic, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Spirituality. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.6%.

The very strong Zygopian economy, worth 436 trillion Calopteras a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. Average income is 63,116 Calopteras, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 495,101 per year while the poor average 2,018, a ratio of 245 to 1.

Euthanasia is illegal, voting is voluntary, local councils have to call in dump trucks to clear parks of dinosaur droppings, and Zygop has designated Zygop City as its capital city. Crime is a problem, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Zygop's national animal is the damselfly, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Zygop is ranked 55,242^nd in the world and 28^th in The World Rearranged for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 5,163.68 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.