The Sancta Imperialis Foederatio of York Zionia is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Gaius Berenson with a fair hand, and notable for its public floggings, smutty television, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless, devout population of 6.99 billion York Zionians 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 tiny, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saint Alkmund. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient York Zionian economy, worth a remarkable 2,393 trillion Kryptoads a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an amazing 342,408 Kryptoads, with the richest citizens earning 7.9 times as much as the poorest.

Almost all of the nation's water is piped into the country from abroad for exorbitant prices, fruit vendors are encouraging a life of crime in their advertising, schools have extensive counseling programs for troubled students, and innocent defendants often plead guilty for fear of receiving a much harsher sentence before jury. Crime is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. York Zionia's national animal is the Kodiak, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is the Tradition.

York Zionia is ranked 6,235^th in the world and 21^st in Forest for Most Corrupt Governments, with 199.68 kickbacks per hour.