The Free Land of Zachstein Island is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 337 million Zachstein Islandians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 60.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Zachstein Islandian economy, worth 6.75 trillion quasoes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Tourism, Woodchip Exports, Automobile Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 20,025 quasoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Programmes of questionable content are shown at peak-hours, the true length of the coastline of Zachstein Island may never be measured, children are disappointed to learn that cavemen never had a yabba-dabba-doo time riding dinosaurs to work, and drug deals return to the streets as legions of undercover officers stalk the dark web. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zachstein Island's national animal is the cotylorhynchus, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zachstein Island is ranked 129,304^th in the world and 2,652^nd in the South Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 1,483.96 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.