The Empire of Zenic is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Emperor Santiago Cuauhtémoc with an even hand, and notable for its national health service, complete lack of prisons, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 23.25 billion Zenicians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Citium. The average income tax rate is 92.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Zenician economy, worth a remarkable 1,822 trillion Sens a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing and Information Technology. Average income is 78,387 Sens, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Space shuttles are lying silent on the runway till the Space Agency can work out how to fit a creche and a meditation room into their next spacecraft, crocodile roadkill is smeared across the asphalt of the new Formula One track, minority children spend hours bussing to schools miles away from home, and military spending is on the increase. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zenic's national animal is the Turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Zenic is ranked 5,247^th in the world and 7^th in Rushmore for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 2,661.06 on the Clooney Contribution Index.