The Federation of Zorvan is a small, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, avowedly heterosexual populace, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 32 million Zorvanians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.9%.

The thriving Zorvanian economy, worth 2.36 trillion Velars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Soda Sales. Average income is 73,741 Velars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 280,072 per year while the poor average 13,469, a ratio of 20.8 to 1.

Parents who fail mandatory parenting classes risk having their children taken away, military spending is on the increase, the nation's entire cultural heritage is being auctioned off to the rich, and the government recently relinquished its monopoly on the mail service. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Zorvan's national animal is the tiger, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Zorvan is ranked 258,668^th in the world and 5,860^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 61 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.